Adding a new parameter to smb.conf

[Alexander Bokovoy]

On Tue, 16 Feb 2016, Partha Sarathi wrote:
> Hi Volker,
> 
> Please see inline answer
> 
> On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 10:45 PM, Volker Lendecke <Volker.Lendecke at sernet.de>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 09:11:45PM -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > > > and the python generated "param_global.h" does not have this entry in
> > > > "struct loadparm_global"
> > > >
> > > > Am I missing any thing here ?
> > >
> > > Did you add the documentation to docs-xml/smbdotconf ?
> > >
> > > That is used to autogenerate the parameter tables.
> >
> > Also interesting, at least to me: What is "tdb backup script" about to do?
> > :-)
> >
> 
> Since we are not using CTDB in our cluster product, we are  backing-up the
> persistent tdb files( secrets.tdb etc ) for the failover cases. With this
> new parameter we are executing a backup script from samba when ever
> secrets.tdb get modified.
> 
> Once we have the CTDB integration with our product, the above approach is
> no more needed.
Sorry, but this means that in future you wouldn't need this option at
all and upstream would have to maintain it forever. Does not seem to be
a fair proposition.

If you are moving to CTDB use in future, may be you can afford
maintaining this patch downstream for time being?
-- 
/ Alexander Bokovoy