Clustering SAMBA

[Bruce Ferrell]

A couple of month ago, sysadmin magazine did an article on using
heartbeat from the linux-HA project you might want to look at.

Matthew Geddes wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Isamar Maia wrote:
> 
> >
> > Hi folks!
> >
> > I was wondering if the following crazy thing would be possible:
> >
> > A server's farm with their harddrives being viewed as unique driver by the
> > samba system
> > So, when I need more drive space, I would need add only one more server and
> > so on.
> 
> This sort of clustering is available on a number of different operating
> systems. If it is to be viewed as one filesystem by Samba, this is
> obviously the wrong mailing list for this question, as the magic will be
> done by the operating system. I recommend reading any documentation for
> your operating system that might cover clustering and perhaps mail a
> mailing list that covers your operating system.
> 
> Hope it helps,
> Matt
> 
> Matthew Geddes
> Software Engineer
> Tellurian Pty Ltd
> mailto: mgeddes at tellurian.com.au