VFS modules / MSDFS tweaking

[Gerald Carter]

On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Kevin (HxPro) Wheatley wrote:

> On a related note, if I have a read only share serverd by multiple
> machines, can I get away with DNS round robin style load balancing, or
> is there something in the MSDFS bits that make this better ?

the actual syntax is for a link is
msdfs:server\share[,msdfs:server\share]
so you should be able to encode replicas that
way.  I would not use round-robin DNS if it
were me since CIFS is connection oriented.
Just feels wrong in my gut...






cheers, jerry
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