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

[John E. Malmberg]

On 7/25/2017 5:43 PM, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
> 
> But then, if this is changed, we have an OpenVMS Samba port that
> is a little more different than the main Samba distribution.

Disclaimer:  I have not looked at the HP port of SAMBA.

Samba 3.x should be structured to use a VFS plugin architecture.  That 
is how it works on Linux.

The mapping of SMB file names to the host filenames should be done by a 
VFS plugin with a default if no plug-in.

Putting in a VFS plugin that does versioning is possible.

This type of thing is why SAMBA implemented VFS plug-ins.

As I pointed out in the earlier post, in past ports, the VMS to SAMBA 
filename translations have turned out to be a performance issue, so 
adding versioning support could have a performance impact.

The last time I looked at SAMBA over 16 years ago, Samba V4 was allowing 
a threaded model instead of a forked process model, which could possibly 
offer a great performance boost for VMS.

Regards,
-John
wb8tyw at qsl.net_work