[clug] Clustering file systems, without excluding windows

[Paul TBBle Hampson]

On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 10:11:42AM +1000, Robert Edwards wrote:
> Paul TBBle Hampson wrote:
> >On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 02:54:05PM +1000, Robert Edwards wrote:
> >>Speaking of ATA over Ethernet (AoE), we are just in the process of
> >>commissioning a Coraid SR1521 15-disk AoE rack (with 8 x 750GB drives).
> >>I might be at a stage to lug it downstairs at next weeks CLUG meeting
> >>if anyone wants an up-close squiz at the innards and a short talk about
> >>how it all fits together.
> >>At this stage, I am looking at Lustre and GFS as two candidates for
> >>the clustered F/S. Andrew Tridgell spoke about IBMs proprietry GPFS
> >>during his recent CLUG talk on Samba Clustering - we aren't interested
> >>in going there at this stage. I have no interest in trying to make
> >>mine "work with Windoze", so can't help on that at all.
> >Heh. Went to reread up on Lustre, to work out why I took it off my list
> >the first time, and was reminded that clustered file systems need common
> >UID/GIDs between the servers. I've not set that up yet, so I guess
> >clustering's off my chart in the end, since I really don't want to put
> >that much time into LDAP.

> "common" (or consistent) UID/GIDs are a fact of life for any distributed
> filesystem whether it is clustered or more traditionally shared
> (NFS/Samba etc.). That is why Windoze has Domains and Domain Controllers
> and why NFS usually sits with NIS or LDAP etc.

> Can't really see how you can build a multiple-server HA system if the
> servers don't have access to a common UIG/GID namespace. Or am I missing
> something here?

Multi-server, I indeed can't. That's why I rejected the idea months ago,
and then forgot last week why I rejected it. >_<

If I had Samba4 available, and was building it from scratch, I'd prolly
rebuild it as a samba4-controlled AD domain, and get all the happiness
that would so richly bring.

Instead I'm going to see if I can find Jon Oxer's notes about
live-migration of a bare-metal server into a domU. ^_^

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