[Samba] gpfs + sernet samba + ctdb + transparent failover confusion

[Sabuj Pattanayek]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Sabuj Pattanayek <sabujp at gmail.com> wrote:

> After looking at this :
>
> http://www.samba.org/~tridge/ctdb.pdf
>
> It looks like this was working a long time ago with ctdb, winxp as a
> client and without the need for protocol SMBv2 or even protocol v3.1 . So
> I'm wondering if "disable that node" as mentioned in the pdf means "service
> ctdb stop" or loss of network connection and not "mmshutdown" which yanks
> the FS from underneath ctdb/samba? I'll give it a shot.
>

Tried "service ctdb stop", "service sernet-samba-smbd stop", rather than
yanking the fs with "mmshutdown", in both cases I had to click re-try
during file writes/copies.