Can CTDB be used to create HA NAS reexporting NFS via Samba?

[Volker Lendecke]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 03:34:35PM +0300, Alexander wrote:
> potential for production use. And looking at its features like that gentle
> TCP session takeover and everything - it looks like a solution for a [kind
> of] true non-stop fileserver.

No. Ctdb can't do TCP session failover. Ctdb has
capabilities to trigger the client to very quickly reconnect
under all circumstances. But the client will be able to tell
that a node failed.

With SMB2 there will be support for so-called durable file
handles which make the client OS completely hide a failover
from the client applications. But that's not there yet in
Samba.

Volker
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