Patch to support Scalable CTDB

[Ralph Böhme]

Hi Partha,

On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 05:14:54PM -0700, Partha Sarathi via samba-technical wrote:
> We have a requirement to support a large cluster i.e scaling from 20 nodes
> to 50 nodes cluster and the current CTDB design may not support the linear
> scaling of nodes in the cluster as the replication of all lock
> related tdbs and tdb traversing for every record may slow down the
> performance.

hm, which itch are you actually trying to scratch here?

I guess there are two scalability problems in the context of volatile dbs (eg
locking.tdb) in ctdb: record contention and vacuuming. Traverses are normally
not an issue as smbd doesn't request traverses of volatile dbs in production. Am
I missing something? Is vacuuming really a problem? Amitay?

-slow

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