From: Volker Lendecke on
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 03:41:36PM +0100, Alexander Födisch wrote:
> we are planning to introduce HSM on our samba servers. Are there any
> experiences with samba in such an environment? Can samba tell the
> applications, that a file is offline and it will takes a while for
> loading it?

Yes, this should be possible, it depends on the HSM product
though. What HSM will you have?

Volker
From: Volker Lendecke on
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 04:41:32PM +0100, Alexander Födisch wrote:
> Volker Lendecke schrieb:
>> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 03:41:36PM +0100, Alexander Födisch wrote:
>>> we are planning to introduce HSM on our samba servers. Are there any
>>> experiences with samba in such an environment? Can samba tell the
>>> applications, that a file is offline and it will takes a while for
>>> loading it?
>>
>> Yes, this should be possible, it depends on the HSM product
>> though. What HSM will you have?
> TSM HSM + GPFS

Ok, there's the tsmsm vfs module which should do that work
for you.

Volker
From: Alexander Födisch on


Volker Lendecke schrieb:
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 03:41:36PM +0100, Alexander Födisch wrote:
>> we are planning to introduce HSM on our samba servers. Are there any
>> experiences with samba in such an environment? Can samba tell the
>> applications, that a file is offline and it will takes a while for
>> loading it?
>
> Yes, this should be possible, it depends on the HSM product
> though. What HSM will you have?
TSM HSM + GPFS

Best,
Alex


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From: Alexander Födisch on
Hi Volker,

were can I get this vfs module? I could not find any donwload link or documentation.

Thanks a lot!
Alex


Volker Lendecke schrieb:
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 04:41:32PM +0100, Alexander Födisch wrote:
>> Volker Lendecke schrieb:
>>> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 03:41:36PM +0100, Alexander Födisch wrote:
>>>> we are planning to introduce HSM on our samba servers. Are there any
>>>> experiences with samba in such an environment? Can samba tell the
>>>> applications, that a file is offline and it will takes a while for
>>>> loading it?
>>> Yes, this should be possible, it depends on the HSM product
>>> though. What HSM will you have?
>> TSM HSM + GPFS
>
> Ok, there's the tsmsm vfs module which should do that work
> for you.
>
> Volker
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From: Volker Lendecke on
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 01:43:09PM +0100, Alexander Födisch wrote:
> were can I get this vfs module? I could not find any
> donwload link or documentation.

It comes with Samba 3.4 automatically. You might have to
enable compiling it explicitly with

--with-shared-modules=vfs_tsmsm

Volker