Samba on Beowulf?

Steve Litt slitt at troubleshooters.com
Tue Dec 7 15:37:28 GMT 1999


At 05:17 AM 12/07/1999 +1100, Jeremy Allison wrote:
>Steve Litt wrote:
>> 
>> Has anyone run Samba on a cluster? Did you find a way to make it make
>> efficient use of the clustered resources? Is there any plan in the future
>> to create smbd/nmbd that takes advantage of a cluster?
>> 
>
>Yes. I have been meeting with someone from the "Linux
>Cluster Cabal" project in order to make this happen.
>
>More work needed :-).
>
>Regards,
>
>	Jeremy Allison,
>	Samba Team.


Thanks Jeremy,

I've had a smile on my face and a spring in my step ever since receiving
this email. This is the killer app for Linux, clustering and Samba. And
Mindcraft thought they had problems before :-)

Steve Litt




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