SMABA/CIFS
presented by
Christopher R. Hertel
Samba is twenty years old. You'd think we'd all have given up and gone home by now, but here we are still slogging away. In those 20 years, Samba has matured from a rebel upstart to an accepted standard implementation to a forgotten piece of infrastructure.
More recently, a lot of fancy new network filesystems have popped up. Things like Gluster and Ceph and "cloud storage" in general promise to solve big data storage problems, access issues, and world hunger all in one go. How will a vintage protocol like SMB/CIFS keep up?
Is Samba even relevant any more?
Well, yes. Yes, it is.
This talk will gloss over the following topics in general terms vague enough that even the layman will want to ask obtuse questions:
* Microsoft's latest SMB version: SMB3
* Samba/CTDB clustering and other weird things Samba can mostly do now
* Whither POSIX semantics and NFSv4+
* How a Samba geek wound up with a two year contract from Microsoft
Chris Hertel is a long-haul member of the Samba Team (14+ years) who actually lives in Saint Paul. He is author of the book "Implementing CIFS" and (surprisingly) lead author of Microsoft's official SMB/CIFS protocol specifications. He currently does stuff for Red Hat.
