[Samba] Samba and large implementations
Andrew Bartlett
abartlet at samba.org
Sun Nov 10 05:55:01 GMT 2002
On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 22:28, Frank De Waelle wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we are investigating if Samba could help us to build a large
> (say very large) file server.
>
> We are thinking OS/390, 4 Tb, 20.000 users
>
> Are we being plain stupid, or has this been done before ?
Well, I would say that is large :-).
There are some known scalability issues with Samba 2.2, --with-pam or
--with-utmp (an n^2) problem. You will no doubt find other issues too,
but I do believe it will be more reliant on who Linux/390 scales.
How will these users be authenticated etc? This is the main area where
I can comment, and one of the first problems you will encounter.
I sure hope you are not putting a poor Pentium as DC :-)
Andrew Bartlett
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Student Network Administrator, Hawker College abartlet at hawkerc.net
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