Re: [Moosefs-users] MooseFS to NFS gateway

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On 05/11/2012 09:00 AM, Boris Epstein wrote:
> Now that we are on the topic - if I need to build an SMB/CIFS gateway to
> MooseFs what in your opinion would be the best way to do that?

That will depend a lot on your environment. Do you have an Active 
Directory domain or do you use OpenLDAP/OpenDirectory? Are you clients 
Windows XP, Vista, 7, Samba? How many clients are you serving? What kind 
of data are they using (big files, high I/O, etc)?

I use OpenLDAP with Windows XP and 7 clients. I use MSDFS roots and 
several identically configured SMB/CIFS samba servers. Access control is 
done at the share and file system level. All the data, including the 
MSDFS links, is in the moose cluster. These are Ubuntu VMs with about a 
gig of RAM each. The vast majority of my data is static. IIR, from the 
MooseFS docs, this setup could cause problems if multiple people are 
trying to use the same file; I think MooseFS (in 1.6.20) doesn't do file 
locks and with the MSDFS you can't rely on the client to do the locking 
either.

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