Date: Sat, 07 May 2016 14:55:48 -0500 (EST) From: Terry Kennedy <TERRY@glaver.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: "Best" SAMBA version for FreeBSD 10.3-STABLE + ZFS? Message-ID: <01PZWENN9ZK4004AIV@glaver.org>
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I will be updating systems from older FreeBSD versions w/ the samba36 port to 10.3-STABLE and a newer SAMBA port. https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/FAQ says "The most recent release is always the recommended version for production use." samba44 just hit the ports tree today, with a commit message of "Port is NOT fully tested, don't use in the production(yet)." As far as I can tell, all of the samba4* ports have the "WARNING! This port is still experimental" note in their README.FreeBSD.in files. Complicating things is that SAMBA is currently serving large ZFS pools (ranging from 32TB to 128TB) to Windows clients. There are various warn- ings about ZFS in the samba4* ports, but they seem to be related to pro- visioning and possibly ZFS-on-root. Is this likely to affect me? Also, what is the status of the "inconsistent directory on rename / delete"? A year or so ago I was following this discussion on the SAMBA lists. It seemed that the prevailing point of view was "your operating system is broken" because FreeBSD doesn't guarantee the same file order when re-traversing a directory after a deletion. Various patches were proposed for this, but I stopped following the discussion before the is- sue got resolved (if it did get resolved). Considering all of the above, what is the current best version for SAMBA deployment on 10.3-STABLE? Should I wait some time and then try samba44? Go with samba43 now? Something else? Terry Kennedy http://www.glaver.org New York, NY USA
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