Re: [Samba] Is it possible to use Samba as a proxy and cache for a slow CIFS drive ?

2011-03-29 Thread Volker Lendecke
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 11:29:53AM +0200, Martin Gilly wrote: > I've been talking to a setup of WAN-Accell/WAFS vendors > (Expand, Riverbed, Certeon, BlusCoat) in the last weeks > but their strategies do not work in my setup because they > never store-and-forward but rather stay synchronous with >

Re: [Samba] Is it possible to use Samba as a proxy and cache for a slow CIFS drive ?

2011-03-29 Thread Martin Gilly
ubject: Re: [Samba] Is it possible to use Samba as a proxy and cache for a slow CIFS drive ? > On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 02:38:17PM +0200, Martin Gilly wrote: > > what will the proxy be able to do without a caching function ? Can I > > mitigate the slow performance of the share with S

Re: [Samba] Is it possible to use Samba as a proxy and cache for a slow CIFS drive ?

2011-03-28 Thread Volker Lendecke
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 02:38:17PM +0200, Martin Gilly wrote: > what will the proxy be able to do without a caching function ? Can I > mitigate the slow performance of the share with Samba as a proxy or > is there a way to "attach" a cache to it ? > > How could a custom VFS module be setup ? Do yo

Re: [Samba] Is it possible to use Samba as a proxy and cache for a slow CIFS drive ?

2011-03-28 Thread Martin Gilly
thx & kind regards, martin. Original-Nachricht Betreff: Re: [Samba] Is it possible to use Samba as a proxy and cache for a slow CIFS drive ? Datum: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 13:19:51 +0900 (JST) Von: TAKAHASHI Motonobu An: esiot...@gmail.com, m...@metamagix.net CC: samba@lists

Re: [Samba] Is it possible to use Samba as a proxy and cache for a slow CIFS drive ?

2011-03-25 Thread TAKAHASHI Motonobu
From: Michael Wood Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 01:20:06 +0200 > On 25 March 2011 15:11, Martin Gilly wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > we have special scenario with a slow file share where Samba (maybe combined > > with other tools) could help by acting like as a CIFS proxy and caching > > system: (snip)

Re: [Samba] Is it possible to use Samba as a proxy and cache for a slow CIFS drive ?

2011-03-25 Thread Michael Wood
On 25 March 2011 15:11, Martin Gilly wrote: > Hi all, > > we have special scenario with a slow file share where Samba (maybe combined > with other tools) could help by acting like as a CIFS proxy and caching > system: > > We're testing an Alfresco ECM System which has a CIFS subsystem (based on

[Samba] Is it possible to use Samba as a proxy and cache for a slow CIFS drive ?

2011-03-25 Thread Martin Gilly
Hi all, we have special scenario with a slow file share where Samba (maybe combined with other tools) could help by acting like as a CIFS proxy and caching system: We're testing an Alfresco ECM System which has a CIFS subsystem (based on jLAN) that is simply to slow for our needs. In this setup