Unlimited Fileserver with Samba CTDB and CephFS

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A practical guide to building a scalable, highly available file service by combining Samba clustered with CTDB and CephFS as the backend. It covers configuring Samba CTDB for redundancy, using CephFS for effectively unlimited storage capacity, and notes that the same CephFS data can also be exported via NFS.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 6:22Samba CTDB and CephFS overview
3. 14:07CTDB cluster database deep dive
4. 20:26Service IP and registry config
5. 28:06Live setup demo
6. 35:15Q&A

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