Jeremy Allison

Join us for an in-depth discussion about Red Hat's recent announcements concerning Red Hat Enterprise Linux led by Bradley M. Kuhn with of a panel consisting of benny Vasquez of Alma, Jeremy Allison of CIQ/Rocky, Jim Wright of Oracle.

Other people: Bradley M. Kuhn benny Vasquez James (Jim) Wright

The presentation will give an overview of all the changes happening in the Samba project code, from the fileserver virtual filesystem (VFS) rewrite, the new features in the SMB3 code, the quest to remove the old SMB1 protocol and much more. Improvements in Samba scalability, clustering and the Active Directory code will be discussed.

The intended audience is anyone who uses the Samba code, creates products with Samba or is interested in the SMB protocol.

The presentation will give an overview of all the changes happening in the Samba project code, from the fileserver virtual filesystem (VFS) rewrite, the new features in the SMB3 code, the quest to remove the old SMB1 protocol and much more. Improvements in Samba scalability, clustering and the Active Directory code will be discussed. I'll also cover the changes to Samba development and tooling, and how we are modernizing the code base to stay relevant in the Cloud-connected world of software defined storage.

This can be either a 30 minute talk (20 mins + 5 questions) or 60 minute talk (45+10 for questions).

The SMB3 POSIX Extensions, a set of protocol extensions to allow for optimal Linux and Unix interoperability with NAS and Cloud file servers, have evolved over the past year, with test implementations in Samba and in the Linux kernel. These extensions address various compatibility problems for Linux and Unix clients (such as case sensitivity, locking, delete semantics and mode bits among others). This presentation will review the state of the protocol extensions, what was learned in the implementations in Samba and provide an opportunity for feedback and suggestions for future improvements to the POSIX extensions.

This talk will cover how Samba uses GPLv3 to work with both proprietary and Free Software companies to maintain software with a vibrant commercial and amateur user and developer community.

This talk will cover the reasons Samba moved license from GPLv2+ to GPLv3+, what we gained as a community out of it, and also the downsides we have experienced from the decision. This talk should interest any project thinking of moving to GPLv3 from an existing license, and also projects considering a new license.

This talk will cover the reasons Samba moved license from GPLv2+ to GPLv3+, what we gained as a community out of it, and also the downsides we have experienced from the decision. This talk should interest any project thinking of moving to GPLv3 from an existing license, and also projects considering a new license.

After 10 years in development, Samba4 has finally been released. What does this mean for existing Samba users, and how will it help us appeal to new users? Come listen to the co-creator of Samba talk about the latest release of the Samba codebase, including Active Directory Domain controller support, moving the core file serving protocol from SMB1 to SMB2 (and now to SMB3), how he got Microsoft to give a quote for the Samba4 press release :-) and other topics of interest.