On 09/11/16 23:28, Martin Schwenke via samba wrote:> On Wed, 9 Nov 2016 16:05:32 +0000, lejeczek via samba > <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote: > >> an attempt to set up a cluster, I'm reading around and see >> some howto writers would say to put "private dir on the FS >> cluster" - one question I have: is this correct? necessary? > No, this is not necessary. > > Where are you seeing this? If it is in any documentation on samba.org > then I'll fix it...not on samba.org (although have not plough through it), but glusterfs own howtos (a various referring to gluster) say to put it there. https://support.rackspace.com/how-to/glusterfs-high-availability-through-ctdb/ - but cannot see they say why. I my case - ldap is the backend so I'm even more dubious.> > Thanks! > > peace & happiness, > martin >
On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 11:24:26 +0000, lejeczek via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:> On 09/11/16 23:28, Martin Schwenke via samba wrote: > > On Wed, 9 Nov 2016 16:05:32 +0000, lejeczek via samba > > <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote: > > > >> an attempt to set up a cluster, I'm reading around and see > >> some howto writers would say to put "private dir on the FS > >> cluster" - one question I have: is this correct? necessary? > > No, this is not necessary. > > > > Where are you seeing this? If it is in any documentation on samba.org > > then I'll fix it... > not on samba.org (although have not plough through it), but > glusterfs own howtos (a various referring to gluster) say to > put it there. > > https://support.rackspace.com/how-to/glusterfs-high-availability-through-ctdb/ > - but cannot see they say why.That was needed a long time ago. I've tried signing up for a Rackspace community account so I can leave some suggestions for fixes to the page (or fix it) but the sign-up page is broken. If I manage to get an account then I'll fix it and add pointers to the latest samba.org documentation. peace & happiness, martin
On Fri, 11 Nov 2016 12:37:24 +1100, Martin Schwenke via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:> On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 11:24:26 +0000, lejeczek via samba > <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote: > > > On 09/11/16 23:28, Martin Schwenke via samba wrote:> > > Where are you seeing this? If it is in any documentation on samba.org > > > then I'll fix it... > > not on samba.org (although have not plough through it), but > > glusterfs own howtos (a various referring to gluster) say to > > put it there.> > https://support.rackspace.com/how-to/glusterfs-high-availability-through-ctdb/ > > - but cannot see they say why.> That was needed a long time ago.> [...] fix [...] and add pointers to the latest samba.org documentation.This how-to has since been updated. The incorrect information has been removed and links to current documentation have been added. Yay! peace & happiness, martin