Also, you can do one thing. You can have two exports in single process, one which has posix locks over it, and another without posix-locks. Regards, Amar On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 10:05 AM, Amar S. Tumballi <amar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi JR, > > As you said, two glusterfs exports (different process) would solve it. But > yes, its bit complex to maintain. > > Meanwhile, if most part of your clients don't use locks, then posix-locks > will act as an dummy layer. It comes into act only when a fnctl()/flock() > calls are made. So, I think you can just use posix-locks translator in the > current glusterfsd process. > > Regards, > Amar > > > On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 9:56 AM, jrs <botemout@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Hi gents, >> >> I'm trying to serve up gluster to a large set of >> windows clients using samba and it's clustering >> extension, CTDB. >> >> CTDB requires that samba's secrets.tdb file (among >> others) be available to all nodes in the cluster. >> It turns out that locking is done by each node >> when writing to the file. >> >> This means that I need some storage in gluster where >> I can apply the posix-locks translator. Problem is >> I don't want it on for most of my storage. >> >> Is there a convenient way to just have posix-locks on >> for a given sub-directory of an already defined brick? >> >> If not, and I have to have a separate brick to apply >> posix-locks to then how do I access this directory? >> Of course, the way I'm running glusterfsd is to >> give a mount point as the last argument. >> >> How do I handle this? >> >> Do I just have to run two different glusterfsd processes? >> >> thanks much, >> >> JR >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gluster-devel mailing list >> Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxx >> http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel >> > > > > -- > Amar Tumballi > Gluster/GlusterFS Hacker > [bulde on #gluster/irc.gnu.org] > http://www.zresearch.com - Commoditizing Super Storage! -- Amar Tumballi Gluster/GlusterFS Hacker [bulde on #gluster/irc.gnu.org] http://www.zresearch.com - Commoditizing Super Storage!
