[Gluster-users] Client failover question

[Poornima Gurusiddaiah]

If you are referring single head server as the samba node, then have samba
deployed on other server nodes and create a samba cluster using ctdb.

Regards,
Poornima

On Sat, Feb 9, 2019, 8:31 PM Jim Laib <jlaib01 at gmail.com wrote:

> I'm using a single server (gluster client)  to mount a gluster replicated
> gluster cvolume using two servers. so the single server is acting as the
> head to the gluster volume. My users access the cluster client head using
> Samba. What I'm wondering is. what's the best way to insure continuity if
> my single head server takes a nap?
> And yes, I agree 3 is better and I plan to move down that path when I
> reconfigure my system.
>
> On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 12:51 PM Nico van Royen <nico at van-royen.nl> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> What do you mean by a gluster 'client server' ?
>> A node is either a server (running the glusterd and glusterfsd/brick
>> processes), and you'd need at least 2 (3 is better, and the volume to be
>> set as a replica-3) or a gluster client (uses the gluster-client to mount a
>> volume from a gluster-cluster).
>> You could of-course also run the 'client' on the actual gluster-server to
>> mount to itself (wouldn't recommend that).
>>
>> Nico
>>
>> ----- Oorspronkelijk bericht -----
>> Van: "Jim Laib" <jlaib01 at gmail.com>
>> Aan: "gluster-users" <gluster-users at gluster.org>
>> Verzonden: Vrijdag 8 februari 2019 17:04:45
>> Onderwerp: [Gluster-users] Client failover question
>>
>> I may have missed this in the documentation, but is there a way to make a
>> Gluster client server redundant? I have several bricks setup being
>> controlled by one cluster client server and if that server blows, there's
>> quite a bit of rebuilding to do. So looking for a way to ovoid that. Any
>> suggestions would be most appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
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