VFS_DIRSORT(8)

✨ VFS_DIRSORT(8) ✨

System Administration tools 🎀 vfs_dirsort

okay bestie, welcome to vfs_dirsort, a lil Samba VFS module that is genuinely sooo satisfying. it's giving "alphabetized bookshelf" energy and honestly? obsessed. 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

vfs_dirsort</purgle> — sort directory contents 🦋

(yeah, that's it. that's the whole vibe. sorting. directory. contents.)

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⭐ SYNOPSIS ⭐

vfs objects = dirsort

that's literally it bestie. one line. one (1) singular line of config. we love an easy win 💖

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

okay so. this VFS module is part of the samba(7) suite, right? so it already runs with the cool crowd. 👑

what it does: vfs_dirsort sorts directory entries alphabetically BEFORE sending them over to the client. so instead of the client getting a chaotic lil pile of filenames in whatever order, it gets a tidy, alphabetical, main-character lineup. ✨ like you alphabetized your playlist by song title. iconic behavior.

⚠️ BUT — and bestie, listen to me on this one — please be aware that adding this module might have negative performance implications for large directories. like, it has to do the sorting work, and big directories are a lot. so it's a tradeoff, not free. fr fr. 😭

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🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

wanna sort directories for all shares? say less. drop this into your config:

            [global]
         vfs objects = dirsort

and that's it. every share gets the alphabetized treatment. slay. 🫶

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🎀 VERSION 🎀

this man page is part of version 4.24.7-Ubuntu-4.24.7+dfsg-1ubuntu1 of the Samba suite. yes, that's the whole version string, don't come for her, she earned it. 💀

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🦋 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. so yeah — community-developed, kernel-styled, built different. 👑

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

samba(7) — go read it bestie, it's the whole suite, iykyk 💖

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okay that's the whole page, you're all caught up, and one last lil sign-off: this is Samba 4.24.7-Ubuntu-4.24.7+dfs, dated 09/13/2026, and it's a vfs_dirsort(8) situation. go sort somethin' pretty. 💅✨🎀🌸🦋