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