Richard Sharpe wrote: >On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, John E. Malmberg wrote: > > > >>Javid Abdul-AJAVID1 wrote: >> >> >>>MSDFS is filey system right, how will it help to load balance samba >>>connections >>>what criteria does it rely to load balance ( like memory, or no of >>>connetions etc.. ) >>> >>> >>MSDFS does not really load balance. MSDFS distributes the >>subdirectories of a directory between multiple servers transparently to >>the clients. >> >> > >Well, my suggestion was that MSDFS be modified to return referrals to >different machines that each provide access to the same distributed file >system, and that these referals be rotated in a round robin fashion. At >least, that is what we will be doing. > > Wouldn't it be easy to run a script on the msdfs-root that monitors the load on different machines and that recreates the referrals based on this load.
Ren� Nieuwenhuizen Sysadmin CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis
