I am sponsoring the following proposal. Because it supports a property
defined by the CIFS protocol, uses names defined by the CIFS documentation,
and required essentially no Solaris-side processing (only storing the value
and providing it to clients), I believe it qualifies for automatic approval.
This information is Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems
1. Introduction
1.1. Project/Component Working Name:
Client-side caching share property
1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier:
Author: Alan Wright
1.3 Date of This Document:
8 December, 2008
4. Technical Description
This fast-track proposes a new property for shares to provide per-
share client-side caching (CSC) for offline files policy guidance
to clients. Note that client-side caching is a client feature and
the offline or cached files are managed entirely by clients.
The property value has no meaning to the server, does not affect
server behavior and the server does not and cannot control the
caching or offline file policy implemented by clients.
This property may be set on Windows servers and is required for
compatibility and interoperability with Windows.
The proposed csc property can take one of values described below.
The value names and definitions are those used in the client-side
caching for offline files documentation, for example,
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa369575(VS.85).aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc212363.aspx
csc=manual|auto|vdo|disabled
manual
Clients are allowed to cache files from the specified share for
offline use as requested by users but automatic file-by-file
reintegration is not allowed. This is the default setting.
auto
Clients are allowed to automatically cache files from the
specified share for offline use and file-by-file reintegration
is allowed.
vdo
Clients are allowed to automatically cache files from the specified
share for offline use, file-by-file reintegration is allowed and
clients are permitted to work from their local cache even while
offline.
disabled
Client-side caching is not allowed for this share.
Examples of setting the csc property using the sharemgr and zfs
commands:
sharemgr set -P smb -p csc=disabled -r zshare zgroup
zfs sharesmb=csc=disabled tank/zvol
6. Resources and Schedule
6.4. Steering Committee requested information
6.4.1. Consolidation C-team Name:
ON
6.5. ARC review type: FastTrack
6.6. ARC Exposure: open
6. Resources and Schedule
6.4. Steering Committee requested information
6.4.1. Consolidation C-team Name:
ON
6.5. ARC review type: Automatic
6.6. ARC Exposure: open
