[Gluster-users] CTDB with Gluster

[Fernando Frediani (Qube)]

Just have a simple and easy IP distribution/take-over system in the case any nodes fail.

Fernando

-----Original Message-----
From: James [mailto:purpleidea at gmail.com] 
Sent: 21 August 2012 15:54
To: Fernando Frediani (Qube)
Cc: 'gluster-users at gluster.org'
Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] CTDB with Gluster

On Tue, 2012-08-21 at 08:40 +0000, Fernando Frediani (Qube) wrote:
> Has anyone used CTDB(http://ctdb.samba.org/) for IP failover/balance 
> between nodes using Gluster ?
I use keepalived at the moment, to provide a virtual ip for the gluster cluster (to use as the mount ip) but in the future I'll probably switch to cman/corosync based cluster management which will manage a virtual ip "resource".

> I guess that’s what was used on the old commercial version of Gluster 
> Storage Platform.
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> Initially I had thoughts on uCarp, but CTDB seems a much better fit 
> for this type of environments.
I don't know anything about CTDB, but my one minute viewing of their webpage makes me think otherwise. What are you trying to do ?


James

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> Fernando
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