load balancing question

[Javid Abdul-AJAVID1]

Why dont we chose a mechanism to connect to the host itself
like static dns rounrobin ,each connection will round robin'ed'
or some dynamic round robin utilies

-----Original Message-----
From: John E. Malmberg [mailto:wb8tyw at qsl.net]
Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 9:58 PM
To: samba-technical at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: load balancing question


Volker Lendecke wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 07:29:44AM -0400, John E. Malmberg wrote:
> 
>>So it all comes down to what the underlying platform supports for shared 
>>simultaneous disk access.
> 
> Even that will not help. Load Balancing SMB will not work due to the
locking
> stuff across connections. If you could get tdb's work (fast!) across
nodes,
> then we might have a chance.

Why would the TDBs not work if they were located storage actively shared 
between all of the hosts?  All the hosts would be reading and updating 
the information in the same tdb.

-John
wb8ytw at qsl.network
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