notifyd

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Fri Jan 30 02:05:45 MST 2015


On Tue, 2015-01-27 at 16:24 -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 02:04:57PM -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 06:35:43PM +0100, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jan 09, 2015 at 10:46:48AM -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Jan 09, 2015 at 05:56:44PM +0100, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> > > > > Hi!
> > > > > 
> > > > > Attached find the notifyd work, rebased on top of current
> > > > > master. I know it does not have signed-off by tags
> > > > > everywhere yet, but I think it's in pretty good shape. So
> > > > > everyone interested in faster clustered change notify with
> > > > > clustered inotify, please take a look :-)
> > > > 
> > > > Wow - this looks some seriously nice code !
> > > > 
> > > > The only thing I'd ask for is some more comments
> > > > inside smbd_notifyd_init() to point out we're
> > > > starting a new daemon here.
> > > > 
> > > > I'm assuming I can just push the first two patches...
> > > > 
> > > > What do you need to get patches 3-15 in master ?
> > > 
> > > The main thing is: I'd like to go through the code with
> > > someone. In particular the cluster replication engine has
> > > some subtleties. Also, I'm not sure that we can make this
> > > switch without a fall back in case something serious
> > > happens that I did not foresee. I firmly believe it works
> > > better than it did with the old code, but a patch that says
> > > 
> > > 33 files changed, 2633 insertions(+), 2039 deletions(-)
> > 
> > It's the deletions bit I love :-).
> > 
> > > is a bit scary to me :-)
> > 
> > Yeah, I understand. Do you want to schedule some time
> > to go through it with myself and metze ?
> > 
> > The leases code was bigger, so I'm sure we can get
> > this done :-).
> 
> Ping Volker ! Don't want this code to get lost.
> 
> Do you have any time to go over it and get it
> into master ?

And related to this, can someone remind me where we are at with having a
common messaging system?  I've got a customer request to make 'samba'
properly rotate logs, and hooking up smbcontrol to the 'samba' binary
would seem to be the best option for that.

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                       http://samba.org/~abartlet/
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Samba Developer, Catalyst IT          http://catalyst.net.nz/services/samba




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