Samba in the Age of Microsoft Glasnost
by Christopher Hertel
Sat, Oct 01, 2011
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Microsoft recently announced Version 2.2 of the venerable SMB network file system protocol. Features of SMB2.2 include multipath support, cluster capabilities, distributed caching, and SMB over RDMA--cool stuff. How will these advanced features impact the storage market, and what jobs are likely to be created? How will the Samba Team--which was at one point ahead of Microsoft in clustering features--respond? Most of all, what does SMB2.2 actually look like on the wire and how do coders break into the illusive SMB/CIFS/SMB2 development community?