[Ocfs2-devel] Clustered Samba/CTDB on ocfs2 ?

[Mark Fasheh]

On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 06:30:21AM +1000, tridge at samba.org wrote:
> Is anyone interested in trying clustered Samba on ocfs2?

Definitely - working well with Samba is one of the things that Ocfs2 is
interested in.


> A group of us have been working on a new design for clustered Samba
> for the last 6 months or so, and we now have something that is
> suitable for wider testing. One of the interesting aspects of the
> design is that it should work on top of just about any clustered
> filesystem, and it doesn't rely on any specific DLM or other
> infrastructure.

Does it require the file system to support cluster-aware fcntl locking?
That's the one thing that Ocfs2 doesn't do yet.
	--Mark

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Mark Fasheh
Senior Software Developer, Oracle
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