Are you running Samba with CTDB on a cluster? This question really belongs on the samba-technical mailing list since it probably has more to do with Samba's state management than the underlying cluster file system. Chris -)----- Justin Shafer wrote: > I have read this on the mailing list.. > http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx/msg08757.html > > > > Basically I want a program called Dentrix which only does SMB1 before > migrating to SQL, I want it to have a stateful failover which right now > doesn’t seem possible with Samba. I read in that archive, that you guys > are waiting for SMB2 and Durable File Handles for stateful failover. > > > > Just one question. Microsoft can do this perfectly with failover server > 2008, steel-eye, and xp as a client, and Dentrix doesn’t make durable > file requests.. But somehow the failover is perfect with Microsoft. > > > > With Samba, my mapped drive is always there during failover, no data > loss, etc. But Dentrix will gripe and say “another file is open at a > workstation” and I have to close and open the program. If Microsoft can > do failover with Dentrix, Samba should be able to.. But of course saying > it is easier then doing it, Im sure. It costs a lot to do it with MS. > > > > -Justin Shafer > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > -- > Linux-cluster mailing list > Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster -- "Implementing CIFS - the Common Internet FileSystem" ISBN: 013047116X Samba Team -- http://www.samba.org/ -)----- Christopher R. Hertel jCIFS Team -- http://jcifs.samba.org/ -)----- ubiqx development, uninq. ubiqx Team -- http://www.ubiqx.org/ -)----- crh@xxxxxxxxxxxx OnLineBook -- http://ubiqx.org/cifs/ -)----- crh@xxxxxxxxx -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
