features in samba 3.alpha (VFS)

[Michael H Buselli]

Tim Potter said:

> On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 12:15:26AM +0100, Rainer Link wrote:
> 
> > Ariel Mella wrote:
> > > what is the state and features of VFS in samba?
> > 
> > VFS works quite well for me. But I still can use only one VFS module per
> > share, even if I specify
> > two modules, the last one will be "active". Hum, I thought this would be
> > possible within Samba 3.0, but I haven't digged into it yet. Tim?
> 
> We didn't progress past the argument stage of stackable vfs modules.  (-:
> I think the consensus was that it was too hard to figure out the 
> semantics of how it would work.

I thought we figured this out (or at least I thought *I* had figured it
out), but no one wanted to implement it yet.  If I ever stopped being
lazy I could do it myself and submit the patches to Tim.

As the code stands the last time I looked, multiple version 2 VFS
modules can be stacked easily if the Samba code supported it.  My
company may soon need two VFS modules on all our Samba shares (vscan and
jitlinks), so that may give me impetus to submit some patches to Tim.

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