[linux-lvm] A little Cluster/Newbie help pls!
Greg Freemyer
freemyer at NorcrossGroup.com
Fri Mar 28 11:45:02 UTC 2003
>> Due to state issues, failover WILL cause any 'during failover' file
>> operations to fail. But on the other side of that, the way that samba
>> deals with file moves/copies ensures that no data will be lost.. simply,
>> restart the operation immediately after the error. In our system, the
>> error occurs the moment that the failover machine takes over. other than
>> having to redo any 'in failover' operations, the failover is completely
>> transparent to clients.. if no operations are occuring, then there will
>> be no sign to clients that a failover occured.
>> Matt Schillinger
Matt,
You should look at the Linux-HA (heartbeat) archives. I'm pretty sure you can even get truly transparent samba failover, but I have not tried to do that yet.
It was the OpenGFS lock server failover I was talking about.
Greg
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