[Samba] Server-Side Copy Offload Limitations

Adam Błaszczykowski adam.blaszczykowski at gmail.com
Tue Sep 4 09:16:34 UTC 2018


>It certainly doesn't look like it, care to share just how you are
doing this ?
Rowland, here is how it looks from client side:
https://i.imgur.com/3vu3NWB.png As you can see there file is not being
copied over the network between two mapped drives.

>it's new functionality that has been added in 4.6.
>
>-slow
Thanks for confirmation!

wt., 4 wrz 2018 o 10:12 Ralph Böhme <slow at samba.org> napisał(a):

> On Mon, Sep 03, 2018 at 12:25:16PM +0200, Adam Błaszczykowski via samba
> wrote:
> >Server-Side Copy Offload wiki page states in Limitations section that
> >
> >   - Both source and destination files must reside on the same Samba
> share!
> >
> >I was able to copy file between different shares located on the same zfs
> >Pool without generating network traffic. Shares were created on Debian 8
> >with zfs filesystem and client was Windows Server 2016 machine mapping
> >shares as separate drives. Is it new functionality or I'm misunderstanding
> >something about server-side copy?
>
> it's new functionality that has been added in 4.6.
>
> -slow
>
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