Setting up CTDB on OCFS2 and VMs ...

[steve]

On 06/12/14 19:10, steve wrote:
> 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?
>
Well?