SMB3 in Samba - Multi-Channel and beyond

Event: Vault

Submission Type: Presentation

Category: Developer

Biography:

Michael is one of the main developers of Samba (www.samba.org), specializing on
file serving and clustering. He is an architect and the manager of Red Hat
Storage Server's SMB team. He has previously presented at the Linux Plumbers
Conference and the LinuxCon Europe and is a frequent speaker at events like
sambaXP and the Storage Developer Conference.

Abstract:

Samba is the most important open source SMB file server, and arguably, one of
the most important SMB implementations out there. While the Active Directory
Server has been the hip topic recently, the file server is really cooking. One
of the most active areas of development is SMB version 3, introduced by
Microsoft to move focus from pure workstation workload to server workload. SMB3
adds an abundance of new features to the protocol. In particular, Microsoft
caught up with Samba/CTDB to offer all-active clustering.

After an overview of the state of Samba's file server, this talk will present
the progress of SMB3 in Samba. It will focus on Multi-Channel, the core of
which has just been added to Samba 4.4, including a demo. Afterwards an outlook
will be given on other active areas like RDMA, persistent file handles, and
scale-out SMB clustering, reporting on status and challenges.

Audience:

This talk is for anyone interested in NAS, file serving, Samba and particularly
SMB3 from the perspective of a user or developer. Administrators, file system
and file server developers, engineers of products using Samba or considering
it...

Experience Level: Intermediate

Benefits to the Ecosystem

This presentation will help understand where Samba's file server is today and
what to expect from the next releases, especially detailing on the state of
Multi-Channel in Samba 4.4. It will also help understand some development
internals of Samba.