Writing a Samba VFS in Samba 3.6 and earlier

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Introduction

This document is intended to help people who want to write Samba VFS modules. It is a Wiki-based version of an earlier document written by Richard Sharpe that can be found at Writing a Samba VFS.

The rest of this document is organized into a number of sections that:

TBD

The Samba VFS

Two Types of File Systems

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Writing a VFS Module

VFS Module Initialization

TBD

Some Existing VFS Modules

TBD

Building, Installing and Debugging your VFS Module

Adding New VFS Routines