Re: storage server fail-over
Thanks, very informative :)
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 10:19 PM, shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com> wrote:
>> On 7/13/2012 8:40 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
>>> thanks, i was also looking for that but i didn't have the idea if
>>> thats gonna work since i have zero knowledge about DRBD.
>>> anyways thanks for the tip it is very helpful.
>>
>
> so, you could also look for clustering file systems - lustre, glustre,
> grid, ceph, etc. i've put this in an email before, so see:
> https://groups.google.com/a/hacdc.org/forum/#!topic/byzantium/wLJcg716PDw
>
> as far as allowing a single namespace for samba, iirc windows has that
> functionality so samba might. however, you might need to research how
> samba namespaces work and setup a heartbeat type system to fail over
> nicely (or somewhat nicely since i'm sure doing it this way, users
> will still get an error from transfers and the likes).
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