[Samba] status of Continuous availability in SMB3

[zhengbin.08747 at h3c.com]

hi Michael Adam:
Thanks for you work on samba. Here I am looking for some advice and your help.
I have been stuck in continuous availability of samba 4.3.9 for two weeks. Continuous availability in SMB3 is an attractive feature and I am strugling to enable it.

smb.conf, ctdb.conf are attached. Cluster file system is cephfs and mount to /CephStorage

client: Windows 8 Pro

root at node0:~# samba --version
Version 4.3.9-Ubuntu

root at node0:~# ctdb version
CTDB version: 2.5.1

root at node0:~# ctdb status
Number of nodes:3
pnn:0 192.168.74.11    OK (THIS NODE)
pnn:1 192.168.74.12    OK
pnn:2 192.168.74.13    OK
Generation:1131631460
Size:3
hash:0 lmaster:0
hash:1 lmaster:1
hash:2 lmaster:2
Recovery mode:NORMAL (0)
Recovery master:0

root at node0:~# ctdb ip
Public IPs on node 0
192.168.74.20 0



My test procedure is as below.
1. The virtual IP is holded by onde0(192.168.74.11). Client(Win 8) accesses \\192.168.74.20\<file:///\\192.168.74.20\>. Copy a large file out of the remote dir and make sure the operation taking a period of time.
2. Restart the ctdb process on node0 to force virtual IP to be taken over by node1(192.168.74.12).
3. At the moment the virtual IP is taken by node1, the copy operation is interrupted simultaneously and can not continue the operation without re-copy the whole file.

When carring out the test, I have a wireshark process run. It is confirmed that protocol smb3 is used. In the tree connection phase, server's response to client claims that it does not support DFS/Continuous Availability.
I'm confused that does SMB3 protocol in samba 4.3.9 just been partly implemented and CA is of one the feature unspported by this version of samba. Or I have not found the way to enable the CA feature. Look forward to your kind advice.

Thanks
weidong
2016-08-31
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