RAFT and CTDB

[Rowland Penny]

On 24/11/14 15:38, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 03:35:06PM +0000, Rowland Penny wrote:
>> On 24/11/14 15:24, Richard Sharpe wrote:
>>> On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 9:31 PM, Min Wai Chan <dcmwai at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Dear Steve,
>>>>
>>>> Ok ok, Will send it over then there are on one login to the server maybe
>>>> during mid night.
>>>>
>>>> I saw something about the ping_ping -RW test
>>>> something like below?
>>>>
>>>> ping_pong -rw test.dat N
>>>>
>>>> Do you need this test result as well?
>>>>
>>>> I just wonder if we mount the ocfs2 wrong?
>>>> If there is a way to mount ocfs2 via user space?
>>> It is not an issue of mounting ocfs2 incorrectly, I believe.
>>>
>>> Rather, you have to have their user-space posix locking daemon running.
>>>
>> I think I see a possible answer, does this mean that you would get
>> two locking daemons, the CTDB one AND the OCFS2 one ??
> Assuming ocfs2 really requires a daemon to do fcntl locking,
> then yes, there will be two daemons. ctdb will rely on
> ocfs2's daemon for the reclockfile. Both serve different
> purposes.
>
> Volker
>
OK, but would/could they work together, or could they interfere with 
each other and cause problems with the smbd daemon i.e stop it starting.

Rowland