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Updated: Wednesday, July 27, 2022
 
 

vfs_dirsort (8)

Name

vfs_dirsort - Sort directory contents

Synopsis

vfs objects = dirsort

Description

System Administration tools                                     VFS_DIRSORT(8)



NAME
       vfs_dirsort - Sort directory contents

SYNOPSIS
       vfs objects = dirsort

DESCRIPTION
       This VFS module is part of the samba(7) suite.

       The vfs_dirsort module sorts directory entries alphabetically before
       sending them to the client.

       Please be aware that adding this module might have negative performance
       implications for large directories.

EXAMPLES
       Sort directories for all shares:

                   [global]
                vfs objects = dirsort

VERSION
       This man page is part of version 4.13.17 of the Samba suite.

AUTHOR
       The original Samba software and related utilities were created by
       Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed by the Samba Team as an Open
       Source project similar to the way the Linux kernel is developed.



ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:


       +---------------+-----------------------+
       |ATTRIBUTE TYPE |   ATTRIBUTE VALUE     |
       +---------------+-----------------------+
       |Availability   | service/network/samba |
       +---------------+-----------------------+
       |Stability      | Volatile              |
       +---------------+-----------------------+

NOTES
       Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can
       be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
       code-downloads.html.

       This software was built from source available at
       https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland.  The original community
       source was downloaded from
       https://download.samba.org/pub/samba/stable/samba-4.13.17.tar.gz.

       Further information about this software can be found on the open source
       community website at http://www.samba.org/.



Samba 4.13.17                     06/28/2022                    VFS_DIRSORT(8)