Thanks for the feedback everyone... On Tue, 13 Feb 2018 11:07:44 +0000, John Spray wrote: > On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 1:25 AM, David Disseldorp <ddiss@xxxxxxx> wrote: ... > > I'd like to (at the very least) pack the CephFS backed share names and > > paths into the service registration. > > Echoing back the share configuration probably isn't a good use of this > interface -- the idea is for service daemons to register just enough > information about themselves to report on their existence, location > and health. Okay, I'll keep it simple then, and just use the Ceph global instance id and daemon name (smbd) for now. > In the case of nfs-ganesha, we're moving toward having the option of > consuming its share configuration from a central place like a RADOS > object, rather than from a local text config file -- in that model, a > UI can go look at the configuration directly rather than having the > daemon report it back. This is kind of a Ceph-ized version of the way > a lot of new projects are storing their configuration in etcd. Interesting. The same should be possible for Samba when we eventually have a Ceph key-value store backend for Samba's dbwrap, and then use Registry configuration. Cheers, David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html