[Gluster-devel] ctdb project

[Brent A Nelson]

NFS reexport nearly works (you can mount and list directories), but as 
soon as you start working with it you see that it is very buggy, at the 
moment (at least with nfs-kernel-server).

On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Brandon Lamb wrote:

> 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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