Creating CIFS shares for a scale-out file system

Veritas Access provides support for creating CIFS shares for a scale-out file system. Unlike a standard clustered file system, a scale-out file system can scale linearly and you can grow the file system up to 3 PB.

See About scale-out file systems

The following limitations apply when you create a CIFS share for a scale-out file system:

• In CTDB mode:

  CTDB mode is not supported for a scale-out filesystem.

  • If the CIFS server is in normal mode, you can add shares to both clustered file system and scale-out file system.

  • If the CIFS server is in CTDB mode, you can add shares to clustered file system but you cannot add shares to a scale-out file system.

  • If clustered filed system shares as well as scale-out file system shares exist, you cannot switch the CIFS server from normal mode to CTDB mode.

• When setting the home directory file systems:

  • You cannot have a home directory file system which is a combination of scale-out file system and clustered file system.

  • You can set multiple clustered file systems as a home directory file system.

• When setting quotas:

  The CIFS> homedir set command is usually used along with the Storage> quota functionality. Since a scale-out file system does not support quota, a CIFS home directory which is based on a scale-out file system does not have the quota functionality.