September 19 through September 25, several developers from Red Hat Storage were in Santa Clara, CA, attending and presenting at SNIA's Storage Developer Conference (SDC), and also participating in the colocated SMB plugfest. For the Samba community, this is one of the two major events of the year (the other being sambaXP - the annual Samba developer and user conference held in spring - www.sambaxp.org). http://www.snia.org/events/storage-developer This is my report -- better late than never. :-) We had a very good presence from Red Hat Storage. Here are the presentations listed in chronological order: - Poornima Gurusiddaiah and Soumya Koduri gave a great presentation about consistent client caching in Gluster. This includes the leases which are an important part of the SMB and NFS teams' combined effort to implement multi-protocol access. They form the foundation inside Gluster for implementing SMB leases and NFS delegations in the protocol on top in such a way that they can be used concurrently. - Ira Cooper gave a really nice comprehensive overview talk about the status of the implementation of SMB3 in Samba. Ira's talk also served as an 'appetizer' for the more specific Samba talks that followed. - I gave a presentation about the implementation of SMB3-Multi-Channel (my current project) which is some kind of SMB-client side channel bonding. It included a live demo that ran code I finished hacking the night before the talk. :-) - Günther Deschner and José Rivera gave a great talk about the implementation of the SMB3 witness service. This is at the heart of the SMB3 clustering features and serves for faster client failovers. The talk also included a tremendous live demo of some "hot" code. - Finally, Soumya Koduri gave an awesome talk about NFS Ganesha on Gluster. She explained the basics of Ganesha and how it works specifically on top of Gluster. There was also an interesting talk about GlusterFS in Manila by Veda Shankar from RH together with Ramnath Sai Sagar from Mellanox. The conference over all was pretty good this year. The usual SMB protocol updates from Microsoft. A couple of good Samba and linux-cifs related talks by Volker Lendecke, Jeremy Allison and Steve French. Non volatile memory and shingled disks were big topics this year, as well as generally software defined storage and all things where storage meets cloud. An interesting keynote was the introduction of the concept of Ethernet connected JBOD, called EBOD, by Jim Pinkerton of Microsoft. It basically provides a new proposal where to draw the line between storage and compute. The second aspect of the event was the SMB plugfest, which is an NDA area where engineers of several companies and projects that implement SMB servers and/or clients (Microsoft, NetApp, EMC, Apple, LoadDynamix, ... to name just a few) meet to test their implementations against one another, to discuss the protocol protocol, and hack. Like in past years, this has been a very good and energizing event, for me mostly discussing, hacking, and fixing bugs together with other Samba people. I spent the week essentially jumping back and forth between selected conference sessions and the plugfest. Cheers - Michael
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