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authorRalph Boehme <slow@samba.org>2019-09-03 15:33:42 +0200
committerRalph Boehme <slow@samba.org>2019-09-25 00:48:45 +0000
commit517ec63004f6708c9e6b29cb33bd789b1936997b (patch)
tree5fb958045658934c3f36c50e6d40305d9182b0a8 /docs-xml
parent929555b7c8e987a98b704c102323546a2034bea7 (diff)
downloadsamba-517ec63004f6708c9e6b29cb33bd789b1936997b.tar.gz
vfs_fileid: add "fsname_norootdir_ext" option
This can be used to deliberately break lock coherency between all smbd processes in the whole cluster for the root directory of a share. Signed-off-by: Ralph Boehme <slow@samba.org> Reviewed-by: Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org> Autobuild-User(master): Ralph Böhme <slow@samba.org> Autobuild-Date(master): Wed Sep 25 00:48:45 UTC 2019 on sn-devel-184
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-rw-r--r--docs-xml/manpages/vfs_fileid.8.xml8
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diff --git a/docs-xml/manpages/vfs_fileid.8.xml b/docs-xml/manpages/vfs_fileid.8.xml
index 8ab1e30c490..defb71229e9 100644
--- a/docs-xml/manpages/vfs_fileid.8.xml
+++ b/docs-xml/manpages/vfs_fileid.8.xml
@@ -87,6 +87,14 @@
algorithm. This can be used to deliberately break lock coherency
in a cluster for the root directory of a share.
</para>
+ <para>The <command>fsname_norootdir_ext</command> algorithm
+ generates device ids by hashing the kernel device name, except
+ for the root directory of shares where it will use the hostname
+ algorithm. Additionally it generates an extid based on the
+ process pid. This can be used to deliberately break lock
+ coherency between all smbd processes in the whole cluster for
+ the root directory of a share.
+ </para>
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