Path to the Server (An Ode to SMB Multichannel)

Read while listening to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXQUu5Dti4g 

 

Path to the Server
On Ode to SMB Multichannel
by Jose Barreto

 

There’s a client somewhere looking for file shares
And it’s finding a path to the server
When it gets there it knows it can read, write and close
With a word it can get what it came for

Ooh, ooh, and it’s finding a path to the server

DNS is involved, but it needs to resolve
‘Cause you know sometimes names have two IPs.
In a dim server room, there is an admin who says:
Sometimes not all our addresses are given.

Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it makes me wonder.

There’s a feeling, a twitch, when I look at the switch,
And my clients are crying for bandwidth.
In my thoughts I have seen
packets route out and in,
And the voices of those who stand waiting.

Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, really makes me wonder.

And it’s whispered to me if on SMB 3
Then the prot’col will lead us to reason.
And a new day will dawn for those file servers
And the clients will echo with laughter.

If you see a few more connections,
Don’t be alarmed now,
It’s just some multichannel action.
Yes, there are two paths you can go by but if one’s gone
There’s still time to change the queue you’re on.

And it makes me wonder.
Ooooooh…

You server is humming, speed is twofold,
In case you don’t know:
You are now balancing your net load.

Dear client, you’re now multipathing,
And just one more thing:
You will recover when your network fails.

Now we can read and write much more,
Our bandwidth higher than before,
There goes the server we all know.
Who perform betters and wants to show
How everything’s still just a share
And if you look it really hard
You’ll see pieces that we shard.
When there are multiple of all you got,
You’ll see a fail but you won’t stop.

And it’s finding the path to… the server…