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Veritas Announces Samba Support On Solaris

Posted by Hemos on from the a-victory-for-open-source dept.

Jeremy Allison - Samba Team writes "Generic "Open Source" scores another success news. In a press release at their web site, Vertias has announced that they'll be shipping a fully supported Samba on Solaris as part of their "VERITAS File Server Edition" product. " As always, my hat's off to the Samba Team.

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  1. Veritas by Signal+11 · · Score: 4
    Just a quickie summary of Veritas:

    In short, Veritas is a very commonly-used filesystem in the workplace - there's not many Solaris sysadmins that haven't heard of it. It is mainly used for high performance filesystems - raid0, raid5... the big boys.

    Since samba is supported by these guys now, it's a given that very high performance samba servers are going to enter the marketplace soon. What does this mean for Microsoft? Bad news. You can now replace your 50+ NT servers with a single solaris box.. and get better performance to boot. Stability, speed, reliability... everything a unix wookie needs in his holy war against the evil empire.

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    1. Re:Veritas by Signal+11 · · Score: 3
      You bring up a good point, but I would like to point out that regardless of what you or I think - the big UNIX shops are Solaris, not linux. Veritas has been in those shops for a long time, and both management and the techies are used to it. That adds up to a wide acceptance in these shops - esp. considering that most every business has a few windows systems out there that need file and print services.

      And though I am loathe to admit it... the Linux filesystem is woefully inadequate for large servers. It works very nicely for SOHO and small workgroups.. but it has too many performance issues to be considered for large servers. ( To illustrate, create an 800mb file on the ext2 fs. Now go ahead and delete it. Can you see the smoke coming out of your HDD yet? ) As always, work is being done to address this... but right now the support isn't there.

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  2. Not offtopic! Funny! by Amphigory · · Score: 2

    "Fully supported samba", where samba is a dance. So, ballroom dance trousers looked tight = support clothing. Get it?

    I apologize for my uncultured compatriots who simply don't understand.

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  3. Veritas supporting SAMBA is good by poopie · · Score: 2

    ... now all we need is VxFS and VxVM for LINUX.
    (oh yeah, and raw devices ;)

    anyway... This is good because a lot of large shops won't consider downloading sourcecode and compiling it on their MISSION CRITICAL production servers (or.. their "sysadmins" are merely operators who don't feel comfortable building source "you mean you have to pay extra for the compiler??" ;)

    so, this is good for linux in the following way:

    -- Samba gains credibility as a file serving solution
    -- samba development progresses
    -- Large customers get their commercial support from a vendor they're already doing business with
    -- selling samba on linux to management gets *much* easier (hey, veritas is using it, and their customers are running it on large Sun servers!)

    So, smile, and enjoy the smell of the Windows empire slowly burning to the ground.