[gpfsug-discuss] GPFS and both Samba and NFS

[Orlando Richards]

On 16/12/13 11:02, Jonathan Buzzard wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-12-13 at 15:35 +0000, Orlando Richards wrote:
>> On 13/12/13 15:31, Jonathan Buzzard wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2013-12-13 at 15:15 +0000, Orlando Richards wrote:
>>>
>>> [SNIP]
>>>
>>>> Hi Lindsay,
>>>>
>>>> We rebuild ctdb from the (git) source (in the 1.2.40 branch currently),
>>>> after running into performance problems with the sernet bundled version
>>>> (1.0.114). It's easy to build:
>>>
>>> Interestingly the RHEL7 beta is shipping ctdb 2.1 in combination with
>>> Samba 4.1
>>>
>>> http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/rhel/beta/7/x86_64/os/Packages/
>>>
>>> JAB.
>>>
>> The samba team are currently working to bring ctdb into the main samba
>> source tree - so hopefully this will become a moot point soon!
>
> Yes I am aware of this. The point of bringing up what is going into
> RHEL7 was to get a flavour of what RedHat consider stable enough to push
> out into a supported enterprise product.
>
> I always ran my GPFS/Samba/CTDB clusters by taking a stock RHEL Samba,
> and patching the spec file to build the vfs_gpfs module possibly with
> extra patches to the vfs_gpfs module for bug fixes against the GPFS
> version running on the cluster and have it produce a suitable RPM with
> just the vfs_gpfs module that I could then load into the stock RHEL
> Samba.
>
> It would appear that RedHat are doing something similar in RHEL7 with a
> vfs_glusterfs RPM for Samba.
>
> Of course even with CTDB in Samba you are still going to need to do some
> level of rebuilding because you won't get the vfs_gpfs module otherwise.
>
>
>

Sernet include GPFS in their builds - they truly are wonderful :)



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