[Linux-cluster] samba on gfs

[Marc Grimme]

Hello,
we have some customers that have samba clusters with GFS running for a long 
time without problems. There are some things you need to take into account 
but nevertheless samba on GFS runs very well even when you export the same 
data via NFS. 
E.G. one customer runs a "active/active" Samba/NFS Cluster on GFS as ADS 
Member for about a year (up to 600 Users) without problems.
I would say samba and GFS is a very nice combination.
Regards Marc.

On Wednesday 15 March 2006 07:30, Robert Ruge wrote:
> I have had problems with samba running on just one node. It works for
> a while and then samba just starts locking up.
>
> Not a reccomended path if you ask me.
>
> Robert
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: linux-cluster-bounces at redhat.com
> > [mailto:linux-cluster-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Birger Wathne
> > Sent: Wednesday, 15 March 2006 5:17
> > To: linux clustering
> > Subject: Re: [Linux-cluster] samba on gfs
> >
> > Erling Nygaard wrote:
> > > Birger
> > >
> > > The short story is that Samba keeps some state information
> >
> > internally.
> >
> > > So there are issues with keeping multiple Samba serves in sync.
> > > The information in question is not synced to the underlying
> > > filesystem, so GFS can't really do the job of keeping this info in
> > > sync between the nodes.
> > >
> > > I am sure other people on the list can provide more details of the
> > > problem and status of any progress :-)
> >
> > So... This means there is a problem only when you want to run
> > multiple samba
> > servers in a cluster? There should be no problem sharing the
> > same GFS disk
> > for one samba instance and one NFS instance running on
> > separate nodes (or
> > even on the same node during maintenance)?
> >
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Marc Grimme
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