>> Due to state issues, failover WILL cause any 'during failover' file >> operations to fail. But on the other side of that, the way that samba >> deals with file moves/copies ensures that no data will be lost.. simply, >> restart the operation immediately after the error. In our system, the >> error occurs the moment that the failover machine takes over. other than >> having to redo any 'in failover' operations, the failover is completely >> transparent to clients.. if no operations are occuring, then there will >> be no sign to clients that a failover occured. >> Matt Schillinger Matt, You should look at the Linux-HA (heartbeat) archives. I'm pretty sure you can even get truly transparent samba failover, but I have not tried to do that yet. It was the OpenGFS lock server failover I was talking about. Greg _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
