Setting up CTDB on OCFS2 and VMs ...

[Min Wai Chan]

Which meant that

We are running CTDB with not their initial design...

And out of the design specification :)

And not sure what will happen.

That would be a nice way to put it...

On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 6:35 PM, steve <steve at steve-ss.com> wrote:

> 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?
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