[Gluster-devel] ctdb project

[Brandon Lamb]

Uh oh. Maybe I missed reading something.

Does NFS currently not work with glusterfs? I was planning on having a
3 server cluster that exported the mounted glusterfs directory to NFS
on each of the 3 servers.

On 6/14/07, Brent A Nelson <brent at phys.ufl.edu> wrote:
> Since many people interested in GlusterFS also seem interested in
> fault-tolerance (and probably have clients that can't run GlusterFS), I
> though I'd point out an interesting project.  Take a look at:
>
> http://ctdb.samba.org
>
> It is designed to use a cluster filesystem (such as GlusterFS) shared
> amongst a cluster that can reexport the filesystem from multiple members
> of the cluster as if they were one (LVS-style).  Although obviously
> intended for Samba, it should work for NFS, too (they have instructions
> for it).
>
> So, you could have a cluster exporting GlusterFS, parallel CIFS, and
> parallel NFS! A fault-tolerant, high-performance fileserving
> jack-of-all-trades; very cool (could make an incredible NAS product; add
> more bricks, serve them up in parallel, handle redundancy and failover)...
>
> Of course, NFS reexport has to work first (SAMBA already seems to work
> fine on GlusterFS).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brent Nelson
> Director of Computing
> Dept. of Physics
> University of Florida
>
>
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