Setting up CTDB on OCFS2 and VMs ...

[steve]

On 06/12/14 19:05, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 9:40 AM, Rowland Penny <repenny241155 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 06/12/14 17:34, steve wrote:
>>>
>>> On 06/12/14 16:24, Richard Sharpe wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 2:58 AM, Rowland Penny <repenny241155 at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> Indeed, I cannot imagine anyone using the approach I used for
>>>> production as well. Having stuff that needs to be rebuilt is not a
>>>> good idea, and it would be useful to get a minimal complete set of
>>>> RPMs together and fix ocfs2-tools so that the correct things are there
>>>> and the build works out what is needed.
>>>>
>>>> However, I only currently need the OCFS2 setup for testing purposes
>>>> while we get our file system supporting FCNTL locks and so I have a
>>>> reference to work with.
>>>>
>>>> Not sure if I have the time to fix anything.
>>>>
>>> Hi
>>> We have ocfs2 working fine with ctdb on both Ubuntu and openSUSE using
>>> only the packages that they supply. We have been in production on the latter
>>> since September. On real hardware. There is extensive step by step
>>> documentation for both distros:
>>> openSUSE
>>>
>>> http://linuxcostablanca.blogspot.com.es/2014/07/samba4-cluster-for-ad-drbd-ocfs2-ctdb.html
>>>
>>> Ubuntu (tested only on vms)
>>>
>>> http://linuxcostablanca.blogspot.com.es/2014/08/ubuntu-samba4-cluster-ctdb-ocfs2-drbd.html
>>>
>>> HTH
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Yes, I know, but I am trying to do it without DRBD.
>
> What they have is not true clustering. It is simple HA. You really do
> not need CTDB for that.
>
How else do you do IP failover for Samba?