[Info-vax] Is there a way to enabling versioning in Samba

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Den 2017-07-26 kl. 00:38, skrev Dirk Munk:
> don.zong at gmail.com wrote:
>> My impression with Samba is that the file is always overridden, no 
>> versioning. revision number might change though. Wondering if there is a 
>> way to enable versioning in Samba - so that whenever there is a change in 
>> the file, it will create a new file with a new version.
> Overridden? what does that mean?
> 
> Very simple. Suppose an application wants to create a file called 
> myfile.txt, what will Samba do?
> 
> 1. Does myfile.txt exist?
> 2. If yes, delete myfile.txt
> 3. create myfile.txt
> 
> The only thing you have to do in the Samba code is to remove 1. and 2. and 
> you will have file versions
> 

For someone (a user) that doesn't expect multiple copies, and that
will never see these copies, this is a route to disaster. It must be
possible to switch on/off per share, so that you can switch versions
on on "input" shares where the files are supposed to be processed
by some OpenVMS procedure (that knows what file vesions is).

But then, if this is changed, we have an OpenVMS Samba port that
is a little more different than the main Samba distribution.