[Samba] Samba with CTDB able to serve non-clustered data?

[Martin Schwenke]

Hi Steve,

On Thu, 11 Aug 2016 14:46:53 -0400, Stephen Cousins via samba
<samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> Thanks very much for the information.
> 
> I guess the part:
> 
> * Coherency of the file data you serve with Samba
> 
>   You need to make sure that updates to the data that you are serving
>   are seen coherently across the cluster.
> 
> Is the tough one. Is there a way to do this that you know of when using NFS?

I don't have the NFS expertise to answer this.  Hopefully someone else
will step in with an answer...

> I see version 4.5 RC2 was just released. Do you know when it will be fully
> released?

The current plan is first half of September:

  https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Release_Planning_for_Samba_4.5

peace & happiness,
martin