VFS Support/Viability in the SAMBA Roadmap

[Dutton, Matthew]

I’m interested in developing a VFS module for exposing a partially database-backed filesystem, similar to the DatabaseFS VFS module.



Before I invest significant effort into this, I’d like to know whether the current VFS architecture is considered “supported” and isn’t on the roadmap to be deprecated. I see fairly recent development based on VFS (e.g. for GlusterFS) and some bugs being resolved, but I did not get a definitive answer from what I could find on the roadmap.



Are there any plans to substantially change or deprecate the current VFS framework?  Is there a roadmap addressing this that I should RTFM?

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Thanks,

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Matt Dutton

Georgia Institute of Technology