I'm working on solving an interesting problem. We've got some folks on the other side of a WAN link who are complaining about the very long load time they have for the really big files located on my server. There *is* a linux system on their side of the WAN connection with Samba already installed and it occurred to me that maybe a DFS setup would be helpful. Having never messed with DFS before I set out to research what it did and discovered that it doesn't do anything about keeping the respective files in sync. That would be a problem. What I'd like to set up is a share on both servers that are somehow kept in sync so that folks can modify files on either one and have the changes reflected on the other. In fact, I would really like to see file locks work across servers so that nobody could modify the file on system A if someone on system B is already editing it. Then set up the DFS tree so that the client systems go to the closest server for file access. Any advice? ;)
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 10:58:24AM -0800, Michael St. Laurent wrote:> Any advice? ;)First: Forget it. Second: Get a WAN accellerator box. But watch out for correct CIFS semantics, they are really tricky to get right. Volker -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/attachments/20071129/ff5dfcf6/attachment.bin