[Samba] static vs shared modules build

Miguel Medalha
Sat, 12 Mar 2016 19:31:05 -0000

> i would give the same device for *any* type of software since the
> whole operating system including the kernel itself these days is built
> with shared modules and you hardly gain anything measureable just
> because one piece of your system is statically compiled
>
> when it's mostly interesting on very slow embedded devices where it
> makes a small difference in startup time when a lower amount of files
> needs to be loaded

Nevertheless, the default build of smbd produces almost twenty builtin
modules, such as vfs_posixacl... Why would that be?