<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Thanks everyone.<br><br></div>So from reading all your comments, I understand that if I need an active / active synchronized setup for higher workloads, Gluster is for me.<br></div><div>Other then that, DFS-R is a good option for data replication at the expanse of latency of the replicated data to the secondary node, and only one server is active per CIFS share.<br><br></div><div>Does DFS-R works well on high rate of changes?<br></div><div>Found from other users use cases that DFS-R caused server hangs and such, hope it was fixed in Win2K12 server.<br><br></div><div>David<br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 10:34 AM, Daniel Müller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mueller@tropenklinik.de" target="_blank">mueller@tropenklinik.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">An example of a working share on samba4:<br>
<br>
You can choose to work with vfs objects= glusterfs<br>
Glusterfs:volume=yourvolume<br>
Glusterfs:volfile.server=Your.server<br>
Form e it turned out to be too buggy.<br>
<br>
<br>
I just used instead the path=/path/toyour/mountedgluster<br>
<br>
You will need this:<br>
posix locking =NO<br>
kernel share modes = No<br>
<br>
[edv]<br>
comment=edv s4master verzeichnis auf gluster node1<br>
vfs objects= recycle<br>
##vfs objects= recycle, glusterfs<br>
recycle:repository= /%P/Papierkorb<br>
##glusterfs:volume= sambacluster<br>
##glusterfs:volfile_server = XXX.XXXX.XXXX<br>
recycle:exclude = *.tmp,*.temp,*.log,*.ldb,*.TMP,?~$*,~$*,Thumbs.db<br>
recycle:keeptree = Yes<br>
recycle:exclude_dir = .Papierkorb,Papierkorb,tmp,temp,profile,.profile<br>
recycle:touch_mtime = yes<br>
recycle:versions = Yes<br>
recycle:minsize = 1<br>
msdfs root=yes<br>
path=/mnt/glusterfs/ads/wingroup/edv<br>
read only=no<br>
posix locking =NO<br>
kernel share modes = No<br>
access based share enum=yes<br>
hide unreadable=yes<br>
hide unwriteable files=yes<br>
veto files = Thumbs.db<br>
delete veto files = yes<br>
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[mailto:<a href="mailto:gluster-users-bounces@gluster.org">gluster-users-bounces@gluster.org</a>] Im Auftrag von Dan Mons<br>
Gesendet: Montag, 10. August 2015 09:08<br>
An: Mathieu Chateau<br>
Cc: gluster-users; David<br>
Betreff: Re: [Gluster-users] Need help making a decision choosing MS DFS or<br>
Gluster+SAMBA+CTDB<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
If you're looking at a Gluster+Samba setup of any description for people<br>
extensively using Microsoft Office tools (either Windows or Mac clients), I<br>
*strongly* suggested exhaustive testing of Microsoft Word and Excel.<br>
<br>
I've yet to find a way to make these work 100% on Gluster. Strange<br>
client-side locking behaviour with these tools often make documents<br>
completely unusable when hosted off Gluster. We host our large<br>
production files (VFX industry) off Gluster, however have a separate Windows<br>
Server VM purely for administration to host their legacy Microsoft Office<br>
documents (we've since migrated largely to Google Apps + Google Drive for<br>
that stuff, but the legacy requirement remains for a handful of users).<br>
<br>
-Dan<br>
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Dan Mons - R&D Sysadmin<br>
Cutting Edge<br>
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On 10 August 2015 at 15:42, Mathieu Chateau <<a href="mailto:mathieu.chateau@lotp.fr">mathieu.chateau@lotp.fr</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hello,<br>
><br>
> what do you mean by "true" clustering ?<br>
> We can do a Windows Failover cluster (1 virtual ip, 1 virtual name),<br>
> but this mean using a shared storage like SAN.<br>
><br>
> Then it depends on your network topology. If you have multiple<br>
> geographical sites / datacenter, then DFS-R behave a lot better than<br>
> Gluster in replicated mode. Users won't notice any latency, At the<br>
> price that replication is async.<br>
><br>
><br>
> Cordialement,<br>
> Mathieu CHATEAU<br>
> <a href="http://www.lotp.fr" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.lotp.fr</a><br>
><br>
> 2015-08-10 7:26 GMT+02:00 Ira Cooper <<a href="mailto:ira@redhat.com">ira@redhat.com</a>>:<br>
>><br>
>> Mathieu Chateau <<a href="mailto:mathieu.chateau@lotp.fr">mathieu.chateau@lotp.fr</a>> writes:<br>
>><br>
>> > I do have DFS-R in production, that replaced sometimes netapp ones.<br>
>> > But no similar workload as my current GFS.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > In active/active, the most common issue is file changed on both<br>
>> > side (no global lock) Will users access same content from linux &<br>
>> > windows ?<br>
>><br>
>> If you want to go active/active. I'd recommend Samba + CTDB + Gluster.<br>
>><br>
>> You want true clustering, and a system that can handle the locking etc.<br>
>><br>
>> I'd layer normal DFS to do "namespace" control, and to help with<br>
>> handling failover, or just use round robin DNS.<br>
>><br>
>> Thanks,<br>
>><br>
>> -Ira<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
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