Is anyone interested in trying clustered Samba on ocfs2? A group of us have been working on a new design for clustered Samba for the last 6 months or so, and we now have something that is suitable for wider testing. One of the interesting aspects of the design is that it should work on top of just about any clustered filesystem, and it doesn't rely on any specific DLM or other infrastructure. So I'd be very interested to hear if anyone tries it with ocfs2. So far its only been tested with GPFS (and it performed very well). See http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/CTDB_Setup for setup details. Cheers, Tridge
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 06:30:21AM +1000, tridge@samba.org wrote:> Is anyone interested in trying clustered Samba on ocfs2?Definitely - working well with Samba is one of the things that Ocfs2 is interested in.> A group of us have been working on a new design for clustered Samba > for the last 6 months or so, and we now have something that is > suitable for wider testing. One of the interesting aspects of the > design is that it should work on top of just about any clustered > filesystem, and it doesn't rely on any specific DLM or other > infrastructure.Does it require the file system to support cluster-aware fcntl locking? That's the one thing that Ocfs2 doesn't do yet. --Mark -- Mark Fasheh Senior Software Developer, Oracle mark.fasheh@oracle.com
>>> On Mon, Jun 4, 2007 at 1:02 AM, in message<18019.47337.745002.756250@samba.org>, <tridge@samba.org> wrote:> Mark, > > > Ok - understood. Out of curiousity, where is this stuff in its lifetime > > (i.e., alpha, aeta, post release, etc). Once we verify that things are > > working with Ocfs2 as expected, we could start pointing people asking > about > > Samba to the CTDB stuff. > > The CTDB stuff has come a long way in the last few weeks. If you or > anyone else on this list wants to do some testing with OCFS2 then I > think it would be a good time to start. > > See http://ctdb.samba.org/ and > http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/CTDB_Setup#Managing_Network_Interfaces > for some documentation other information.Would Samba work with something like the cluster iptables load sharing stuff? http://lists.community.tummy.com/pipermail/linux-ha/2007-May/025390.html (guess the point is to create a single system image file server cluster) - Robert