CTDB in Samba4

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 16:32 -0600, Abhijith Das wrote:
> Hi all,
> I watched the video of Tridge's talk on ctdb this morning; very cool. 
> Kudos to all involved in the effort!
> I have a few questions about this clustering effort and I'm hoping I can 
> get some answers here.
> 
> 1. As I understand it, ctdb is being included in Samba4. Is there an 
> effort to backport it to Samba3?
> 
> 2. Are ctdb and tdb inter-changeable as far as samba is concerned? i.e 
> can we plug in one or the other into Samba with ease?

No, each database must be converted (and apparently this is much more
than a mechanical transition).  In the meantime, there is a hack to
store the other tdbs on the cluster backend, where the (presumably
slower) filesystem should handle it correctly, but slower. 

> 3. Transparent failover of samba services: As I'd understood it before, 
> transparent failover of a samba service from one node to another was not 
> possible without the client reconnecting (as active connections to smbd 
> are severed). Does ctdb (or any other current clustering effort) allow 
> for transparent failover of samba services across nodes?

On this point no:  The shared state does not include enough information
for some front-end device to migrate active connections.  Indeed, the
design is predicated on a client disconnection loosing locks (and
therefore less need to replicate data).

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc.                  http://redhat.com
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