In order to expose ceph filesystems to Windows hosts, we propose
including ceph-dokan[1][2] in the Ceph tree, while updating it to
work with the latest CephFS and Dokany APIs.
Dokany is a well maintained project (fork of the original Dokan
project), allowing filesystems to be implemented in userspace,
even providing a Fuse compatibility layer.
One reason for not using the FUSE compatibility layer is that it's
only covering the high level API while Ceph is using the low level
FUSE API, which among other things is inode centric.
Changes made by this patch compared to the upstream ceph-dokan:
* support latest stable Dokany API. The upstream version relies on
the legacy unmaintained Dokan API
* return proper error codes, converting standard errno.h values to
NTSTATUS
* minor changes to support latest cephfs API
* drop duplicated ceph code, no longer needed if we're to include it
in tree. This makes it much easier to maintain.
* drop redundant permission checks, leaving it up to libcephfs
* use ceph argparse helpers
* use ceph logging and daemon initialization
* fixed unicode handling
* switched to ceph coding style
* made ceph.conf param optional, using the default path if available
* enabled setting file timestamps
* append support
* configurable timeouts set once per mount
* ensure that the error code is always logged
* various cleanups (removed unused entry points, checks that have
been moved to dokany, simplified conditional statements,
unnecessary conversions in the hot path, etc).