[PATCH] DFS referral shuffling

[Richard Sharpe]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 11:20 AM, Robin McCorkell
<rmccorkell at karoshi.org.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Any chance of getting this patch reviewed? DFS referral shuffling allows
> load balancing of a DFS share for dumb clients, which is one of the
> primary uses of DFS, so I'd imagine it'd be useful for many people.

Shouldn't we fix smbclient and mount.cifs to have the correct behavior?

> Regards,
> Robin McCorkell
> The Linux Schools Project
>
> On 15/02/2015 5:34 PM, Robin McCorkell wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've implemented DFS referral shuffling to enable a primitive sort of
>> load balancing for a DFS path. Yes, the MS docs say the client should
>> decide which to pick, but from my testing smbclient and mount.cifs only
>> ever choose the first one. The behaviour is controlled by a config
>> paramater, `msdfs shuffle referrals`, which should be set in the DFS
>> root share and defaults to off. The actual shuffling code is very
>> similar to the DFS DC shuffling code in vfs_dfs_samba4, which does the
>> same thing but for DCs rather than DFS referrals.
>>
>> Like the previous email, ignore the [PATCH] 1/2 in the patch header,
>> this is the only patch.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Robin McCorkell
>> The Linux Schools Project
>
>



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