From 3e9568a40a188e3c2b6ea75f1185b5d17c43f9fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?utf8?q?G=C3=BCnther=20Deschner?= Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2016 13:51:41 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] some general stuff for witness. --- smb3.wiki | 18 +++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/smb3.wiki b/smb3.wiki index 017b494..a7cf6fd 100644 --- a/smb3.wiki +++ b/smb3.wiki @@ -1,2 +1,18 @@ -==== FOO ==== +==== Witness - General ==== +New DCE/RPC Service to “witness” availability of other services, in particular SMB3 connections +* Prompt and explicit notifications about failures in highly available systems +* Allows Continuous Availability of SMB shares in clustered environments (together with persistent handles) +* Controlled way of dealing with reconnects instead of detecting failures due to timeouts +* Available with SMB3 + +==== Witness in Samba ==== + +Currently under development in Samba +* PoC implementation available, currently development on hold until new DCE/RPC async infrastructure is available +* WIP branch: \\ % + https://git.samba.org/?p=gd/samba/.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/master-witness + +Samba Witness service will cause Windows clients to reconnect: +* when client admin tool is used +* when CTDB (or any other cluster resource control manager) moves resources or IP addresses -- 2.34.1