Storing pipe opens in the share_mode db ?

[Jeremy Allison]

On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 03:42:26PM -0500, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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> Jeremy & Volker,
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> I'm working on the Open Files enumeration in MMC.
> Here's a screenshot of what's working.
> http://samba.org/~jerry/screenshots/open_files.png
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> Next, I need to be able to enumerate pipe opens across
> all smbd process which means I need to store them in a db.
> I am thinking about just using the share_mode db.  Any objections
> to this?  I believe that set_share_mode() when opening the pipe
> and del_share_mode() when closing the pipe is all I need.
> But I need to fake up a dev & inode pair.  Any warnings
> or suggestions about this?  Do either of you think this is
> a horrible idea?

I would prefer you not use the share mode db (the main
open file db). The contention on this under load is
*horrible*, plus it's the bottleneck for clustered
Samba. I'd suggest another tdb, sorry.

I'm afraid I think it's a horrible idea :-).

Jeremy.