[Samba] Samba Replication

Uwe Laverenz laverenz at molkerei-ammerland.de
Tue Apr 22 03:30:49 GMT 2008


Steve Francia schrieb:

> DFS in samba seems like a good approach, but doesn't it depend on a 
> clustered file system for replication? Am I missing something here?

DFS lets your users see the shares of different servers as directories 
within a single share. So you could make a share on either side of your 
connected networks and within these shares you could add a link to the 
other network's share. For your users this would look like a normal 
directory within the local share. This is not really a "distributed 
filesystem", I guess.

If you need a real distributed filesystem, you could have a look a 
something like http://www.openafs.org/ .

byes,
Uwe



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