There is a CTDB and GlusterFS guide here: http://download.gluster.com/pub/gluster/documentation/Gluster_CTDB_setup.v1 .pdf It works. -----Original Message----- From: "Fernando Frediani (Qube)" <fernando.frediani at qubenet.net> Date: Wednesday, 22 August 2012 7:48 AM To: James <purpleidea at gmail.com> Cc: "'gluster-users at gluster.org'" <gluster-users at gluster.org> Subject: Re: CTDB with Gluster >Hi James, >Well, uCarp does VRRP in a very simple way but it's not the solution for >multiple nodes. I don't know keepalived. Wil it manage with a single >intances the placement o IP addresses accross all nodes and take-over by >any other one randomly if a node goes down ? > >Fernando >________________________________________ >From: James [purpleidea at gmail.com] >Sent: 21 August 2012 18:30 >To: Fernando Frediani (Qube) >Cc: 'gluster-users at gluster.org' >Subject: Re: CTDB with Gluster > >On Tue, 2012-08-21 at 16:33 +0000, Fernando Frediani (Qube) wrote: >> Just have a simple and easy IP distribution/take-over system in the >>case any nodes fail. >So what you want is VRRP. >Why not use keepalived ? It's very easy to setup. > >James > >> >> Fernando >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: James [mailto:purpleidea at gmail.com] >> Sent: 21 August 2012 15:54 >> To: Fernando Frediani (Qube) >> Cc: 'gluster-users at gluster.org' >> Subject: Re: CTDB with Gluster >> >> On Tue, 2012-08-21 at 08:40 +0000, Fernando Frediani (Qube) wrote: >> > Has anyone used CTDB(http://ctdb.samba.org/) for IP failover/balance >> > between nodes using Gluster ? >> I use keepalived at the moment, to provide a virtual ip for the gluster >>cluster (to use as the mount ip) but in the future I'll probably switch >>to cman/corosync based cluster management which will manage a virtual ip >>"resource". >> >> > I guess that?s what was used on the old commercial version of Gluster >> > Storage Platform. >> > >> > Initially I had thoughts on uCarp, but CTDB seems a much better fit >> > for this type of environments. >> I don't know anything about CTDB, but my one minute viewing of their >>webpage makes me think otherwise. What are you trying to do ? >> >> >> James >> >> > >> > >> > >> > Does it do the job well and fast ? >> > >> > >> > >> > Thanks >> > >> > >> > >> > Fernando >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Gluster-users mailing list >> > Gluster-users at gluster.org >> > http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users >> > >_______________________________________________ >Gluster-users mailing list >Gluster-users at gluster.org >http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users >