Veritas Announces Samba Support On Solaris 29
Jeremy Allison - Samba Team writes "Generic "Open Source" scores another success news. In a press
release at their web site, Vertias has announced that they'll be shipping a fully supported
Samba on Solaris as part of their "VERITAS File Server Edition"
product. " As always, my hat's off to the Samba Team.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend (Score:1)
Open-source not supported? Ha! (Score:1)
Fully supported Samba (Score:1)
Re:Fully supported Samba (Score:1)
Veritas (Score:4)
In short, Veritas is a very commonly-used filesystem in the workplace - there's not many Solaris sysadmins that haven't heard of it. It is mainly used for high performance filesystems - raid0, raid5... the big boys.
Since samba is supported by these guys now, it's a given that very high performance samba servers are going to enter the marketplace soon. What does this mean for Microsoft? Bad news. You can now replace your 50+ NT servers with a single solaris box.. and get better performance to boot. Stability, speed, reliability... everything a unix wookie needs in his holy war against the evil empire.
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Not offtopic! Funny! (Score:2)
I apologize for my uncultured compatriots who simply don't understand.
Re:Not offtopic! Funny! (Score:1)
Is humour being dumbed down just like everything else? Lets be honest Friends is not exactly ground-breaking.
Veritas and Linux (Score:1)
Re:Fully supported Samba (Score:1)
Re:Veritas (Score:1)
Re:..huh? (Score:1)
..huh? (Score:1)
This is a bit of a turn-around from the article just previous to it on Slashdot, don't you think? What I mean to say is, is Sun having a good Samba port a good thing for the Linux community?
Re:Veritas (Score:1)
So, this looks like a very welcome addition, and it looks like I get my way.
Re: Veritas (Score:1)
The months following the full release of W2000 should be very interesting to watch. It could so easily be an OS/2 like disaster.
Re:Veritas (Score:3)
And though I am loathe to admit it... the Linux filesystem is woefully inadequate for large servers. It works very nicely for SOHO and small workgroups.. but it has too many performance issues to be considered for large servers. ( To illustrate, create an 800mb file on the ext2 fs. Now go ahead and delete it. Can you see the smoke coming out of your HDD yet? ) As always, work is being done to address this... but right now the support isn't there.
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Re:Veritas (Score:1)
I found this out the hard way when I was ripping lots of mp3's from my CD collection. There was a discussion about it on linux-kernel, with the suggested workaround of using 4K or 8K blocks when you make the filesystem, instead of the default 1K. It makes a huge difference, much more than a factor of 4 or 8 (I think due to indirection that unlink() is O(n^2) in the number of blocks, which would explain the improvement).
So if you have a disk that you know will store very large files, be sure to use mke2fs -b 4096 or better.
Not a solution, but a darn good workaround...
-Doug
Veritas supporting SAMBA is good (Score:2)
(oh yeah, and raw devices
anyway... This is good because a lot of large shops won't consider downloading sourcecode and compiling it on their MISSION CRITICAL production servers (or.. their "sysadmins" are merely operators who don't feel comfortable building source "you mean you have to pay extra for the compiler??"
so, this is good for linux in the following way:
-- Samba gains credibility as a file serving solution
-- samba development progresses
-- Large customers get their commercial support from a vendor they're already doing business with
-- selling samba on linux to management gets *much* easier (hey, veritas is using it, and their customers are running it on large Sun servers!)
So, smile, and enjoy the smell of the Windows empire slowly burning to the ground.
Samba license (Score:1)
Re:Great! Now how about Samba on s/390s? (Score:1)
Re:Samba license (Score:1)