[Gluster-devel] ctdb project

[Brandon Lamb]

Is this ubuntu specific? I run a mix of centos 4.4, fc 4, 5, 6 and
putting together a fedora 7 box.

On 6/14/07, Brent A Nelson <brent at phys.ufl.edu> wrote:
> 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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