s3fs in master (and the road to Samba 4.0)

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Wed Feb 29 18:28:36 MST 2012


On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 14:55 +0100, Andreas Schneider wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 February 2012 22:53:48 Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > With the autobuild I finally got into the tree today, s3fs is now
> > available in master.  This is an implementation of the smbd file server
> > as part of an AD domain controller.
> 
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> thanks for this work.
> 
> > However, the major identifiable task I see is that we need to integrate
> > the endpoint mapper implementations so that they can talk to each other.
> > Currently, it is not possible to register smbd-forked end points
> > (spoolss, srvsvc, etc) with the epmapper from s4, so we get copious
> > warnings in the logs.
> 
> The Samba3 endpoint mapper is more complete and advanced the the one in S4. 
> The S4 can do a simple epm_Map and epm_Lookup for one service but that's it. 
> All other features are not implemented, we have that in S3. The s3 version has 
> additional functions which can be called over ncalrpc as root. This is 
> epm_Insert and epm_Delete to register or unregister endpoints.

Yes, clearly we need a way to register services, and epm_Insert and
epm_Delete would seem to be a reasonable approach.  

> The S3 endpoint mapper is a daemon forked from smbd. It holds all the 
> information about the endpoints in memory. When smbd registers a new endpoint 
> it leaves the connection open to epmd so if epmd dies, it will detect the 
> connection loss and reregister. If the epmd detects that a connection of an 
> endpoint is closed, it will delete it from its database.
> 
> We could try to build something like a library and use the same code in S3 or 
> S4 or we could create an independent epmd.

My preference is for a library, if that isn't too hard.  In doing that,
we may also learn about what else would be required to have a more
independent rpc server layer.  

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
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