[Gluster-users] question on gluster served with samba

[Poornima Gurusiddaiah]

Hi, 

If you are connected to a node via Samba and if that node goes down, you will have to manually connect to the other Samba node, 
unless Samba nodes are clustered and you have a HA solution on top of Samba. 
CTDB could be one of your options, it provides both clustering and IP failover for Samba. 

https://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/doc/Gluster_CTDB_setup.v1.pdf 
Could be your guide, but the steps can vary based on the Samba and CTDB version you are using. 

Yes, Samba node failover is out of scope of GlusterFS. 

Regards, 
Poornima 

----- Original Message -----

> From: "Bill Dossett" <Bill.Dossett at pb.com>
> To: gluster-users at gluster.org
> Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 12:53:13 AM
> Subject: [Gluster-users] question on gluster served with samba

> Hi,

> I’m slowly finding my way around glusterfs and getting a little more
> comfortable with the concepts of glusterfs itself.

> I have a 2 node baremetal server with a 1.5 TB volume replicating and it
> seems pretty damn cool.

> I have now exported with samba as well. I can connect with samba to the
> volume on either node.

> My question is - kind of stupid maybe – but if I am connected to a node via
> samba, and that node goes down for any reason, is that it? I guess I have to
> then manually connect to the other node? There isn’t any automated way … I
> guess I am thinking about a MS cluster file server where there is a shared
> IP address between the nodes so if one node fails the ip address goes to the
> other node and you can more or less keep working. Anyw writes you were doing
> at the time would be lost, but you would be automatically reconnected.

> Is this in the scope of gluster or would I need to look at some other form of
> HA to make this work? I appreciate any help or further reading I can do on
> this – I’m very new to GlusterFS only one week into it, but very interested
> in the capabilities.

> Thanks

> 

> Bill Dossett

> Systems Architect
> 

> Tech Central – Global Engineering Services

> T +1 303 440 3523

> M +44 (0)777 590 8612

> bill.dossett at pb.com

> pitneybowes.com

> Pitney Bowes

> 4750 Walnut Street | Boulder, Colorado, 80301 | USA

> 

> 

> In Engineering?

> Raise a ticket via Remedy Anywhere [ HERE ] takes less than a minute

> CloudForms User Guide available [ HERE ]

> _______________________________________________
> Gluster-users mailing list
> Gluster-users at gluster.org
> http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20150413/36454828/attachment.html>