[Samba] Dfs - Load Balancing

[Eric Horst]

MSDfs in Samba works great!  MSDfs in Windows works great!  File
Replication Service (FRS) is bad but DFS is good.  We've used Windows Dfs
and Samba Dfs in combination for about two years and it is indipensable.

We have Dfs trees of about 2000 links (corresponding to user home
directories) hosted on Samba.  The 'root' of our Dfs tree is hosted on
Windows and has about 200 links.  We also use it to implement "connect to
any file server and be redirected to the one that actually has your files"
feature.  Kinda like a Samba generic 'homes' share across a cluster of six
file servers.

--Eric

On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 marion.haines at brevardcounty.us wrote:

> I'm also interested in using DFS but have no previous experience with
> it.  Just what are the issues???
>
>
> TIA,
> Marion D. Haines
> Network Administrator
> Board of County Commissioners
> Brevard County, Florida
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> EMail:  marion.haines at brevardcounty.us
> Phone:  321-617-7398
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>
>  -----Original Message-----
> From: 	Jerry Haltom [mailto:jhaltom at feedbackplusinc.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, October 29, 2003 9:04 PM
> To:	iSMTP at GC2A@Servers["David Chait
> Cc:	iSMTP at GC2A@Servers
> Subject:	Re: [Samba] Dfs - Load Balancing
>
>  << File: Headers.822 >> I will second this.
>
> On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 19:48, David Chait wrote:
> > I am not certain how Samba specifically will handle this, but I can say from
> > experience that MS's FRS/DFS implimentation is a dissaster, don't go near it
> > if you value your data.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Nicholas McDowell" <teknik at theorphanage.com>
> > To: <samba at lists.samba.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 5:28 PM
> > Subject: [Samba] Dfs - Load Balancing
> >
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I was wondering if anyone has had any experience with using the Dfs
> > > functionality within Samba.
> > >
> > > I've been searching for any performance information and or documentation
> > > regarding Dfs in particular load balancing i.e.
> > >
> > > 1) How does it load balance?  Is it some sort of round robin?
> > > 2) Is there a limit to the number of servers that can used in the load
> > > balance?
> > > 3) How many requests per second can Dfs handle?
> > >
> > > Any information or links would be greatly appreciated.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Nicholas
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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