We maintain vfs_ceph for samba at mirror.croit.io for Debian Stretch and Buster. We apply a9c5be394da4f20bcfea7f6d4f5919d5c0f90219 on Samba 4.9 for Buster to fix this. Paul -- Paul Emmerich Looking for help with your Ceph cluster? Contact us at https://croit.io croit GmbH Freseniusstr. 31h 81247 München www.croit.io Tel: +49 89 1896585 90 On Thu, May 9, 2019 at 9:25 AM Robert Sander <r.sander@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 08.05.19 23:23, Gregory Farnum wrote: > > > Fixing the wiring wouldn't be that complicated if you can hack on the > > code at all, but there are some other issues with the Samba VFS > > implementation that have prevented anyone from prioritizing it so far. > > (Namely, smb forks for every incoming client connection, which means > > every smb client gets a completely independent cephfs client, which is > > very inefficient.) > > Inefficient because of multiplying the local cache efforts or because > too much clients stress the MDS? > > I thought it would be more efficient to run multiple clients (in > userspace) that interact in parallel with the Ceph cluster. > Instead of having only one mounted filesystem (kernel or FUSE) where all > the data passes through. > > Regards > -- > Robert Sander > Heinlein Support GmbH > Schwedter Str. 8/9b, 10119 Berlin > > https://www.heinlein-support.de > > Tel: 030 / 405051-43 > Fax: 030 / 405051-19 > > Amtsgericht Berlin-Charlottenburg - HRB 93818 B > Geschäftsführer: Peer Heinlein - Sitz: Berlin > > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list > ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com