Build and validate a scale-out Samba/CTDB cluster atop CephFSan invention by dmdiss Samba and CTDB rely heavily on POSIX fcntl locks for data and meta-data integrity. This functionality was recently fixed in CephFS, opening up the possibility to use CephFS as an underlying filesystem for a scale-out Samba/CTDB cluster. Such an architecture should perform and scale much better than the existing single Samba + VFS module gateway. |
Add snapshot support to cifs.koan idea by dmdiss The File Server Remote VSS Protocol (FSRVP) was recently defined by Microsoft. It allows for SMB clients to remotely request the creation, exposure and destruction of share snapshots. Aside from support in Windows Server 2012, preliminary FSRVP server support has also been implemented for Samba. |