[Gluster-devel] ctdb project

[Brent A Nelson]

I don't know; I've only tried reexporting from Ubuntu.  Multiple types of 
clients fail (including Suns), however.

On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Brandon Lamb wrote:

> 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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