[Linux-cluster] Re: Linux-cluster Digest, Vol 20, Issue 12

Eric Anderson anderson at centtech.com
Tue Dec 13 17:21:47 UTC 2005


gwood at dragonhold.org wrote:

>>>>SMB is stateful and not cluster
>>>>aware,
>>>>        
>>>>
>>(please correct me here! I'm still learning)
>>    
>>
>The point is that if the application itself is storing information, then
>the filesystem under it cannot (without app support) make up for this.
>
>Hence the comment about SMB being stateful.  If the clients connections
>cannot cope (locking or just data transfer) cleanly with the server
>crashing/restarting, then it cannot be clustered in this way.
>
>Personally I didn't think this applied to samba, but I don't know the
>internals enough to comment.
>  
>

Ahh - I see, what you are saying actually has nothing to do with unix 
filesystems, but samba and clients.  I believe from what I've seen, that 
most clients will reconnect upon connection loss, and re-acquire locks 
and such without issue.  I'm not 100% certain on this, so take it for 
what it's worth.

Eric



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