[Samba] Samba + Quantum StorNext FS (SNFS)

[Michael Gasch]

yes, that´s why i was asking.

there was a nice and detailed article from volker in german magazine ix [1].

@volker
to speed up performance do you think it´s a good idea to use jumbo
frames between the samba server and windows xp clients, which have a
dedicated network link (point-to-point, no switch, many NICs) to the
samba server each?

e.g.:

Shared Filesystem->Samba Server 1->Share 1
				     |-> Client1 172.16.0.1/16
				     |-> Client2 172.16.1.1/16

if all machines are connected via 1GBE and we transport large files, i
would expect 80% saturation of the network link with jumbo frames even
when talking cifs?!?!

micha

[1]
Offen verteilt
Wissen, Connectivity,
iX 12/2006, Seite 134

Peer-Joachim Koch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> even when file locking is working from the underlaying
> gfs ? 
> Isn't there a flag in the smb.conf to use the system file locking ?
>  
> 
> Bye,
>     Peer
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> 
> On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 04:52:58PM +0100, Peer-Joachim Koch wrote:
>>> we have STorNEXT together with samba and NFS.
>>> All StorNEXT Clients have all 6 FS mounted. 
>>> The samba server exporting different mount points.
>>> But it is possible to export the same folders from both sides.
>> With "both sides" you hopefully mean NFS and Samba. Multiple
>> Samba servers on the same file space leads to corrupt data,
>> because the locking is not right. See the clustering pages
>> on wiki.samba.org for the development being done in this
>> area.
>>
>> Volker
>>
> 
> 
> 

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