[Samba] vfs objects

[Eric Altman]

If you have bash-completion-extras (or the equivalent for your bistro) installed, you should be able to type “man vfs” and hit tab completion to see your list of available vfs objects.

> On Oct 30, 2019, at 11:38 AM, Rowland penny via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> 
> On 30/10/2019 17:32, torch via samba wrote:
>> Is the “important" vfs objects parameter documented in a man page anywhere?  It appears in the man pages of several vfs modules, but never fully documented that I could find.  Apparently it once was from a now dead link https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/old/Samba3-HOWTO/smb.conf.5.html#VFSOBJECTS <https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/old/Samba3-HOWTO/smb.conf.5.html#VFSOBJECTS> .
>> 
>> Todd
> 
> It is mentioned in 'man smb.conf':
> 
> vfs objects (S)
> 
>     This parameter specifies the backend names which are used for Samba VFS I/O operations. By default, normal disk I/O operations are used but these can be overloaded with one or more VFS objects.
> 
>     Default: vfs objects =
> 
>     Example: vfs objects = extd_audit recycle
> 
> There are quite a few 'vfs-*' man pages, but they do not seem to listed anywhere, but, from git, this is a full list:
> 
> vfs_acl_xattr       vfs_prealloc
> vfs_aio_fork        vfs_preopen
> vfs_aio_pthread     vfs_readahead
> vfs_audit           vfs_readonly
> vfs_btrfs           vfs_recycle
> vfs_cacheprime      vfs_shadow_copy2
> vfs_cap             vfs_shadow_copy
> vfs_catia           vfs_shell_snap
> vfs_ceph            vfs_snapper
> vfs_ceph_snapshots  vfs_streams_depot
> vfs_commit          vfs_streams_xattr
> vfs_crossrename     vfs_syncops
> vfs_default_quota   vfstest
> vfs_dirsort         vfs_time_audit
> vfs_extd_audit      vfs_tsmsm
> vfs_fake_perms      vfs_unityed_media
> vfs_fileid          vfs_virusfilter
> vfs_fruit           vfs_worm
> vfs_full_audit      vfs_xattr_tdb
> vfs_glusterfs       vfs_zfsacl
> vfs_glusterfs_fuse  vfs_gpfs
> vfs_linux_xfs_sgid  vfs_media_harmony
> vfs_nfs4acl_xattr   vfs_acl_tdb
> vfs_offline
> 
> Rowland
> 
> 
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