[Samba] locking and gfs

[Ross S. W. Walker]

Volker Lendecke wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 12:51:24AM +0100, Markus Neis wrote:
> > Ok I understand. People that earn more money than me made
> > this decision ;-) But I wonder why Redhat offers the
> > possibility in their cluster suite to setup samba services
> > on top of gfs. This should be a known problem then.
> > However, as I understand you its not a good idea to use
> > samba with gfs unless we would use ctdb?
> 
> You can perfectly fine use samba on top of gfs, as long as
> you only share your data from a single node or (more
> precisely) make sure that every directory is only shared via
> a single node. Different directories can be shared via
> different nodes.

If samba+gfs is really only feasible for single node access then
why even use GFS? Why not just use ext3 and CLVM and have the
logical volumes fail-over from node-to-node? It definitely
would be a whole lot simpler to deploy.

-Ross

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