smbd/source3 or ntvfs/source4 for new VFS module development?

[Rowland Penny]

On 27/01/16 14:56, Ira Cooper wrote:
> Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org> writes:
>
>> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 04:46:31PM -0800, Zack M. Davis wrote:
>>> Dear list,
>>>
>>> When developing a new VFS module, does it still make sense to put it in
>>> source3/modules/vfs in the source repository and use the `smb_register_vfs`
>>> API as illustrated in examples/VFS/skel_*.c? Or is it preferrable to use
>>> the source4/ntvfs infastructure (which is newer, but ominously described as
>>> "to a large extent [...] deprecated in terms of use for file shares" at
>>> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba/Status#Feature_Status_on_the_AD_DC)?
>> source4/ntvfs is dead. It's legacy code, that will eventually be
>> removed.
> When is eventually?
>
> Cheers, with pitchforks and torches,
>
> -Ira
>

How about sometime last week :-D

Rowland