[Samba] large smb.conf file

[Jeremy Allison]

On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 04:24:55PM -0500, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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> Nathan Vidican wrote:
> > I don't personally know of a way myself, but I think it would be of
> > great value to be able to remove the share definition from the main
> > smb.conf file, and maintain them in some sort of database.
> > 
> > It would at the very least minimize the startup time in reading the
> > configuration file but perhaps complicate smbd process startups by
> > requiring a db connection of some sort; this is admittedly above and
> > beyond my abilities to start/debug/design/debate, so I thought I might
> > just pass on the idea to the list.
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> We've considered having the parent smbd re-parse the configuration
> file into a tdb and the send a message to all the children that
> it the configuration changed.  At this point we could maintain
> a timestamp on a per service basis.  Or maybe even remove the need
> for the in memory services array altogether.
> 
> The main design hurdle is variable substitution.

Or we could wait (mod) random timel < 5secs after noticing a
smb.conf change to spread out the load ?

Jeremy.