about the worm feature

[Li, Dan]

Hi,

I create a pull-request for this feature a few days ago,
could anybody review this patch for me?

https://github.com/samba-team/samba/pull/98
Thanks very much!

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以上、よろしくお願いします
李 丹（LI DAN）
Dept. III of Technology and DevelopmentNanjing Fujitsu Nanda Software Tech. Co., Ltd.(FNST) No. 6 Wenzhu Road, Nanjing, 210012, China
T: +86-25-86630566-9488
Mail: lidan at cn.fujitsu.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ralph Böhme [mailto:slow at samba.org]
> Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2017 4:10 PM
> To: Li, Dan/李 丹 <lidan at cn.fujitsu.com>
> Cc: samba-technical at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: about the worm feature
> 
> Hi
> 
> On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 05:19:52AM +0000, Li, Dan via samba-technical wrote:
> > Thanks for your suggestion!
> 
> fwiw, I agree with Ronnie, this should go into a new module.
> 
> > I can add a new module named "worml" for short of "worm limit" which has
> the retention period.
> > I'd like to implement it based on the code of vfs_worm and vfs_readonly.
> 
> worml sounds awkward, why not just vfs_retention?
> 
> > I know that 'worm' has a common meaning in storage for ages, but I
> > think the meaning is changing because the evolution of the media of
> storage.
> > For example, Glusterfs and NetApp has its worm feature with the retention
> period.
> >
> >
> http://blog.gluster.org/2016/07/worm-write-once-read-multiple-retentio
> > n-and-compliance-2/
> >
> http://www.netapp.com/us/products/backup-recovery/snaplock-compliance.
> > aspx
> >
> > Anyway, can I just contribute my patch and how should I do that?
> 
> <https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Contribute>
> 
> The initial section "How to contribute to Samba?" covers the most important
> things, namely copyright policy, signed-off-by tags and git format
> patches. :)
> 
> -slow
>