Re: [Samba] Ideas for distributed Samba servers

2010-04-12 Thread Diego Zuccato
On 12/04/2010 06:21, Robert LeBlanc wrote: Ever heard of glusterfs? The exact thing I was going to ask :) Yes, I don't think it works well in a geography diverse clusters though. I'll test it soon in a 2-node scenario, where nodes are on separate networks and max speed is limited by an

Re: [Samba] Ideas for distributed Samba servers

2010-04-12 Thread Ravi Channavajhala
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: Robert LeBlanc put forth on 4/11/2010 8:19 PM: On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 9:03 AM, ravi channavajhala ravi.channavajh...@dciera.com wrote: WAFS (Wide Area File System) appliances can be very well deployed for this

Re: [Samba] Ideas for distributed Samba servers

2010-04-11 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Sat, 2010-04-10 at 10:14 -0700, Eric Shubert wrote: Robert LeBlanc wrote: I'm trying to think about how to setup a Samba system and would like to pick the brains of some experts. We are looking up put a large amount of storage ~75TB in a central data center. We have some remote (ok, not

Re: [Samba] Ideas for distributed Samba servers

2010-04-11 Thread ravi channavajhala
) Ltd -Original Message- From: samba-boun...@lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-boun...@lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of Adam Tauno Williams Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2010 8:15 PM To: samba@lists.samba.org Subject: Re: [Samba] Ideas for distributed Samba servers On Sat, 2010-04-10 at 10:14 -0700

Re: [Samba] Ideas for distributed Samba servers

2010-04-11 Thread Ravi Channavajhala
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Adam Tauno Williams awill...@whitemice.org wrote: On Sat, 2010-04-10 at 10:14 -0700, Eric Shubert wrote: Robert LeBlanc wrote: I'm trying to think about how to setup a Samba system and would like to pick the brains of some experts. We are looking up put a

Re: [Samba] Ideas for distributed Samba servers

2010-04-11 Thread Robert LeBlanc
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 9:03 AM, ravi channavajhala ravi.channavajh...@dciera.com wrote: WAFS (Wide Area File System) appliances can be very well deployed for this sort of thing precisely. Unfortunately, I don't know of any opensource project for WAFS. However, commercial solutions such as

Re: [Samba] Ideas for distributed Samba servers

2010-04-11 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Robert LeBlanc put forth on 4/11/2010 8:19 PM: On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 9:03 AM, ravi channavajhala ravi.channavajh...@dciera.com wrote: WAFS (Wide Area File System) appliances can be very well deployed for this sort of thing precisely. Unfortunately, I don't know of any opensource project

Re: [Samba] Ideas for distributed Samba servers

2010-04-11 Thread Robert LeBlanc
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 7:47 PM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.comwrote: I would think it would be cheaper and more straight forward to replace the GbE port on each end of the fiber link with a 10GbE port than to deal with the complexity of caching and replication, or other such options,

Re: [Samba] Ideas for distributed Samba servers

2010-04-11 Thread Adam
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Re: [Samba] Ideas for distributed Samba servers

2010-04-11 Thread Robert LeBlanc
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Adam squeeze...@gmail.com wrote: Ever heard of glusterfs? Yes, I don't think it works well in a geography diverse clusters though. Lustre has this same problem. I could be wrong. Robert LeBlanc Life Sciences Undergraduate Education Computer Support Brigham

Re: [Samba] Ideas for distributed Samba servers

2010-04-10 Thread Eric Shubert
Robert LeBlanc wrote: I'm trying to think about how to setup a Samba system and would like to pick the brains of some experts. We are looking up put a large amount of storage ~75TB in a central data center. We have some remote (ok, not remote, but across slower links, ok if you consider several

Re: [Samba] Ideas for distributed Samba servers

2010-04-10 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Eric Shubert e...@shubes.net wrote: Robert LeBlanc wrote: I'm trying to think about how to setup a Samba system and would like to pick the brains of some experts. We are looking up put a large amount of storage ~75TB in a central data center. We have some

Re: [Samba] Ideas for distributed Samba servers

2010-04-10 Thread Robert LeBlanc
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Eric Shubert e...@shubes.net wrote: Robert LeBlanc wrote: I'm trying to think about how to setup a Samba system and would like to pick the brains of some experts. We are looking up put a large amount of storage ~75TB in a central data center. We have some

[Samba] Ideas for distributed Samba servers

2009-11-03 Thread Robert LeBlanc
I'm trying to think about how to setup a Samba system and would like to pick the brains of some experts. We are looking up put a large amount of storage ~75TB in a central data center. We have some remote (ok, not remote, but across slower links, ok if you consider several hundred clients over 1Gb