That can be mitigated with setting referral ordering on the namespace for common shares. I don't DFSR to load balance, I do it for uptime. All of the shares are referral ordered to just one server. To date, we have not had any double edit issues. Although I probably just jinxed myself.
From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, April 29, 2013 5:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DFSR The big deal with DFS (IMO) is the "double-edit" issue. Two people can edit the same file at the same time and the last one that saves the file "wins". From: David Lum [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, April 29, 2013 5:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: DFSR I resolved my DFS issue from last week (pilot error :)). My question is this: Is there a reason not to leverage DFS for most file shares? It seems to me like it's a good way to be able to down a server (read: patch and reboot) and keep the file shares available, but I also know with something that's new to me makes it easy to overlook something simple. I'd guess it's not a good idea to DFS *every* file share, just mission-critical ones? In the scenario I care about the sites are all connected at 10Mbit or better and there's no more than 40 users connected to any one server at a time and 55 is the total user count. All storage is local, no SAN /iSCSI, etc. I did find this too: http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2010/11/01/common-dfsr-configuration-mistakes-and-oversights.aspx Seems like the only downside - as long as you're paying attention to things listed in the link above - is using 2x/3x+ of the overall disk space as without DFSR, and possible traffic if you are a huge environment with very slow connections. David Lum Sr. Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
