Samba improvements needed

John E. Malmberg wb8tyw at qsl.net
Fri Sep 24 03:25:17 GMT 2004


Richard Sharpe wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, John E. Malmberg wrote:
> 
>>However, at the time of the open request, the vfs module can take out a
>>VMS lock on the filespec, and that will provide a cluster wide protection.
> 
> ... as long as you only run Samba on one node in the cluster ...

As a VMS lock is cluster wide, there should be no restriction on running 
it on multiple nodes.

Since the tdb is disk resident on VMS, it should also be a cluster wide 
resourse as long as all cluster members are looking at the same tdb files.

A couple of the tdb files and APIs seem to have been reimplemented using 
the native VMS filesystem to improve VMS's efficiency.

There should not be a problem.  But testing will be needed of course.

Regards,
-John
wb8tyw at qsl.network
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