[Linux-cluster] samba on gfs

Marc Grimme grimme at atix.de
Wed Mar 15 13:52:38 UTC 2006


On Wednesday 15 March 2006 14:45, Velu Erwan wrote:
> Marc Grimme a écrit :
> >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.
>
> This sounds to be done in a homedir approach but this doesn't sounds to
> work when you share a directory on several samba servers.
> I mean, there will be troubles if two users want to access to the same
> file by using 2 different samba servers.
> The samba team sounds to address this issue in the future samba 4.0.
Right, because of that i wrote "active/active". It might work but I would 
accept the same problems to happen in special cases.
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