Samba and MS Shadow Copy
Alexander Bokovoy
a.bokovoy at sam-solutions.net
Tue Aug 5 12:18:09 GMT 2003
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 08:01:16AM -0400, Ken Cross wrote:
> metze:
>
> OK, here is the guts of the VFS module related to Shadow Copy stuff. I
> snipped out sections of code that are irrelevant, repetitive, or deal with
> the internals of our file system that wouldn't make any sense to anybody.
Thank you!
> 2. The VFS routine for "stat" includes a cache for file stats. Samba has a
> HUGE amount of stat requests going on. This code will keep the stat in
> cache for one second. A lot of operations (open with create, unlink, etc.)
> will invalidate the cache. Tests have shown NetBench operations get a 70%
> cache hit. (!)
Interesting... Is this of a general use?
> 3. I've abused the "log level" parameter to add a new parameter to smb.conf
> without mucking with loadparam. See the vfs_alfs_init routine. The
> "statcache_size" isn't really a debug level, it's a value to override a
> default value. So
>
> log level = 2 statcache_size:100
>
> will set statcache_size in the DEBUGLEVEL_CLASS array (see debug.c). Then I
> use:
>
> i = ( DEBUGLEVEL_CLASS_ISSET[ alfs_statcache_index ] ?
>
> DEBUGLEVEL_CLASS[ alfs_statcache_index ] : DEFAULT_STATCACHE_SIZE );
>
>
> to retrieve the value or, if not set, use a default value.
This is incorrect use. For proper specification of your VFS module (and
other modules' too) parameters use parametric options API instead.
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/ Alexander Bokovoy
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