Revision as of 18:27, 20 July 2009

Clustered Samba for GFS2

Summary

Support for active-active samba sharing over GFS2 using CTDB.

Owner

Name: Abhijith Das
email: adas@redhat.com

Current status

Targeted release: Fedora 12
Last updated: 7/20/2009
Percentage of completion: 70%

Detailed Description

With the availability of a clustered database (CTDB) for Samba, multiple instances of smbd across different nodes of a cluster are able to share state. It is now possible to share the same directory in a clustered GFS2 filesystem via Samba+CTDB from all the nodes of a cluster to facilitate Active/Active Samba sharing.

Benefit to Fedora

Active/Active sharing of Samba services was not possible over GFS2 (or any other clustered filesystem) before this feature was implemented. With this it's possible now.

Scope

How To Test

User Experience

Dependencies

Contingency Plan

Documentation

Release Notes

Comments and Discussion

See Talk:Features/YourFeatureName

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
-{{admon/important | Comments and Explanations | The page source contains comments providing guidance to fill out each section.  They are invisible when viewing this page.  To read it, choose the "edit" link.<br/> '''Copy the source to a ''new page'' before making changes!  DO NOT EDIT THIS TEMPLATE FOR YOUR FEATURE.'''}}
+= Clustered Samba for GFS2 =
-<!-- All fields on this form are required to be accepted by FESCo.
- We also request that you maintain the same order of sections so that all of the feature pages are uniform.  -->
-<!-- The actual name of your feature page should look something like: Features/YourFeatureName.  This keeps all features in the same namespace -->
-= Feature Name =
-<!-- The name of your feature -->
 == Summary ==
-<!-- A sentence or two summarizing what this feature is and what it will do.  This information is used for the overall feature summary page for each release. -->
+Support for active-active samba sharing over GFS2 using CTDB.
 == Owner ==
-<!--This should link to your home wiki page so we know who you are-->
+* Name: [[User:adas| Abhijith Das]]
-* Name: [[User:FASAcountName| Your Name]]
+* email: adas@redhat.com
-<!-- Include you email address that you can be reached should people want to contact you about helping with your feature, status is requested, or  technical issues need to be resolved-->
-* email: <your email address so we can contact you, invite you to meetings, etc.>
 == Current status ==
-* Targeted release: [[Releases/{{FedoraVersion||next}} | {{FedoraVersion|long|next}} ]]
+* Targeted release: [[Releases/12 | Fedora 12 ]]
-* Last updated: (DATE)
+* Last updated: 7/20/2009
-* Percentage of completion: XX%
+* Percentage of completion: 70%
-<!-- CHANGE THE "FedoraVersion" TEMPLATES ABOVE TO PLAIN NUMBERS WHEN YOU COMPLETE YOUR PAGE. -->
 == Detailed Description ==
-<!-- Expand on the summary, if appropriate.  A couple sentences suffices to explain the goal, but the more details you can provide the better. -->
+With the availability of a clustered database (CTDB) for Samba, multiple instances of smbd across different nodes of a cluster are able to share state. It is now possible to share the same directory in a clustered GFS2 filesystem via Samba+CTDB from all the nodes of a cluster to facilitate Active/Active Samba sharing.
 == Benefit to Fedora ==
-<!-- What is the benefit to the platform?  If this is a major capability update, what has changed?  If this is a new feature, what capabilities does it bring? Why will Fedora become a better distribution or project because of this feature?-->
+Active/Active sharing of Samba services was not possible over GFS2 (or any other clustered filesystem) before this feature was implemented. With this it's possible now.
 == Scope ==

Search

Features/GFS2ClusteredSamba: Difference between revisions