[Linux-cluster] samba on gfs

[Birger Wathne]

Erling Nygaard wrote:

> Birger
> 
> The short story is that Samba keeps some state information internally.
> So there are issues with keeping multiple Samba serves in sync.
> The information in question is not synced to the underlying
> filesystem, so GFS can't really do the job of keeping this info in
> sync between the nodes.
> 
> I am sure other people on the list can provide more details of the
> problem and status of any progress :-)

So... This means there is a problem only when you want to run multiple samba 
servers in a cluster? There should be no problem sharing the same GFS disk 
for one samba instance and one NFS instance running on separate nodes (or 
even on the same node during maintenance)?

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birger