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Re: [Gluster-devel] Problem with samba/ctdb (clustered samba)


From: Amar S. Tumballi
Subject: Re: [Gluster-devel] Problem with samba/ctdb (clustered samba)
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 10:10:15 -0700

Also,  you can do one thing. You can have two exports in single process, one
which has posix locks over it, and another without posix-locks.

Regards,
Amar

On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 10:05 AM, Amar S. Tumballi <address@hidden>
wrote:

> Hi JR,
>
>  As you said, two glusterfs exports (different process) would solve it. But
> yes, its bit complex to maintain.
>
> Meanwhile, if most part of your clients don't use locks, then posix-locks
> will act as an dummy layer. It comes into act only when a fnctl()/flock()
> calls are made. So, I think you can just use posix-locks translator in the
> current glusterfsd process.
>
> Regards,
> Amar
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 9:56 AM, jrs <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Hi gents,
>>
>> I'm trying to serve up gluster to a large set of
>> windows clients using samba and it's clustering
>> extension, CTDB.
>>
>> CTDB requires that samba's secrets.tdb file (among
>> others) be available to all nodes in the cluster.
>> It turns out that locking is done by each node
>> when writing to the file.
>>
>> This means that I need some storage in gluster where
>> I can apply the posix-locks translator.  Problem is
>> I don't want it on for most of my storage.
>>
>> Is there a convenient way to just have posix-locks on
>> for a given sub-directory of an already defined brick?
>>
>> If not, and I have to have a separate brick to apply
>> posix-locks to then how do I access this directory?
>> Of course, the way I'm running glusterfsd is to
>> give a mount point as the last argument.
>>
>> How do I handle this?
>>
>> Do I just have to run two different glusterfsd processes?
>>
>> thanks much,
>>
>> JR
>>
>>
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>
>
>
> --
> Amar Tumballi
> Gluster/GlusterFS Hacker
> [bulde on #gluster/irc.gnu.org]
> http://www.zresearch.com - Commoditizing Super Storage!




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Amar Tumballi
Gluster/GlusterFS Hacker
[bulde on #gluster/irc.gnu.org]
http://www.zresearch.com - Commoditizing Super Storage!


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