Re: [cifs-discuss] CIFS in production and my experience so far, advice needed

2010-04-19 Thread charles
I initially posted this thread under several topics.I am not used to these 
forums so apologies for the lack of neatness in posting!

Here are the some details

http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=475468#475468
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Re: [cifs-discuss] CIFS in production and my experience so far, advice needed

2010-04-17 Thread Orvar Korvar
If you do this, you should post a full report with all details here. So other 
users can benefit from your experience? If youself had found such a post here, 
you would have been helped?
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Re: [cifs-discuss] CIFS in production and my experience so far, advice needed

2010-04-16 Thread charles
some feedback...

I created my own quick and dirty concurrent connection pressure test which is 
not very scientific, but importantly I could still access resources fine on the 
opensolaris server from Windows with CIFS while the test was running.

The test was run from both Mac OS10.5 and SLES 10 SP2 both connecting to single 
CIFS shared zfs filesystem on opensolaris 2009/06 containing users home 
directories.

I created a bash script to mount a total of 600 opensolaris home directories 
with 600 users onto 600 mount points on the clients.So I then had 600 
concurrent CIFS connections as viewed from netstat on opensolaris.

I spawned off simultaneous instances of fdtree -  
https://computing.llnl.gov/?set=codepage=sio_downloads  which is 'software (a 
bash script) is used for testing the metadata performance of a file system' and 
therefore created load. In total there were 300 fdtree actions creating complex 
directory and file structures in each CIFS share mount point.

My opensolaris server is just a VM running in ESX server, allocated 1 CPU and 
6GB RAM.

As I say, it is not hugely deterministic, but it goes some way to giving me the 
confidence that CIFS on solaris can handle some anger.
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[cifs-discuss] CIFS in production and my experience so far, advice needed

2010-04-12 Thread charles
I am looking at opensolaris with ZFS and CIFS shares as an option for large 
scale production use with Active Directory.

I have successfully joined the opensolaris CIFS server to our Windows AD test 
domain and created an SMB share that the Windows server 2003 can see. I have 
also created test users on the Windows Server, specifying the profile and home 
directory path to the SMB share on the opensolaris server. This creates a home 
directory with relevant ACL's on ZFS on the fly. All appears to work fine.
I could then in theory apply quotas on opensolaris if needed with the rich easy 
to use ZFS commands, and even tweak ACLS with /usr/bin/chmod.

In theory I could batch user creation on the Windows server, all homedirs would 
be on ZFS and the world would be a better place.

This is all using the ephemeral user model on opensolaris, so only the SIDs are 
stored permanently on opensolaris, the uids and username 'just passing through 
in memory', the ACLs importantly remaining associated to the SIDS (this is my 
experience with ACLs but I am unsure how stable the permanency of ACLs are 
considering the appear to be associated with temporoay uids in opensolaris if 
you interrogate with /usr/bin/ls -V  ?)

The scale is around 60,000 users all with home directories and a total of 40 
million files, soon to be increasing. Around 600 concurrent users.

This is where I stop to thinkis opensolaris and CIFS designed to be robust 
enough for use like this in production?

There are several opensolaris  bug reports I have noted with CIFS like for 
example you cannot unmount a share because  'device busy' (bug id 6819639).

This make me worry about how robust it really is.

I would dearly love to have a ZFS fileserver for my Windows users, especially 
as NTFS is not as scalable and flexible and frankly as nice.

I have been put off Solaris (10) and SAMBA because the config looks complex and 
you appear to need identity on the Solaris server, which would be a major 
headache with 60,000 users. Opensolaris and CIFS solves this issue immediately 
with idmap and ephemeral users.

What are peoples thought on the viability of opensolaris in production?
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