On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 22:15 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote: > After having setup our workarounds for NFS we are very happy with how > it's working. Now we're looking at Samba. > > But we have quite a showstopper right at the beginning. The smb/cifs > clients, be it smbclient or Windows XP, don't like their TCP stream > being resetted and don't retry/reconnect (contrary to NFS). > > It looks like the protocol has no considerations for retries above the > TCP/IP level. So when the TCP stream is torn on the server's side due > to relocation (either due to crash/fencing or soft) any client > smb/cifs activity is broken at that time. > > This means that any data transfer via smb/cifs shares during the > relocation will fail, and there is nothing we can do on the server's > side. Or is there? Potentially not, in the past, we've always had clients reconnect. -- Lon -- Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
