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<div>GPFS and HA</div>
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<div>GPFS has now the so called protocol nodes which do provide a HA environment for NFS and SAMBA.</div>
<div>I assume its based on the CTDB since the CTDB is currently supporting a few protocols already.*</div>
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<div>What i would like to see is a generic HA interface using GPFS. It could be based on the CTDB , native GPFS callbacks or any service providing HA functionality based on a clustered FS.</div>
<div>Such a service would allow - only with minor extentions - to make almost any service (Oracle,DB2,FTP,SSH,NFS,CRON,TSM a.s.o ) HA.</div>
<div>So IMHO the current approach is a little bit shortsighted.</div>
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<div>GPFS and System i</div>
<div> I looking forward the day we have a SQL interface/API to GPFS. Thus storing DB objects natively on a GPFS thus not using any kind of addional DB files.</div>
<div>Now if you would have such an interface what about a general modern language which supportr SQL and is multi node runable ?</div>
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<div>Who knows ... Maybe the AS/400 gets reinvented</div>
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<div>cheers</div>
<div>Hajo</div>
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<div>Reference: </div>
<div> * <a href="https://ctdb.samba.org/documentation.html">https://ctdb.samba.org/documentation.html</a></div>
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