I believe that others are correct (look at linuxvirtualserver.org for documentation and discussions on Samba in a clustered mode) in that CIFS' peer to peer concept is very stateful..
On the other hand, samba can be made 'Highly available' without alot of trouble. I have a High Available File server (NFS and Samba) configuration with 2 nodes, in an active-active configuration. If one of the servers is hung up, or requires maintenance, its services (including samba) will failover to the other node. If a client is in the middle of a samba served file operation, they will see an error, but an immediate retry of the file operation will work fine from the failover server. Because of CIFS' handling of files, it is very safe, because if you are performing a file move, the original file is not deleted until after a 'copy' is completed. So, if there's a failure, all you need to do is restart the procedure. Matt Schillinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 03:21, Leroy van Logchem wrote: > Hello fellow samba users, > > Our company uses samba for all fileshares/printing/PDC on > two SUN E3500's. We like to replace these with about 10 > Linux 19" XEON (pizza)boxes. The question: Are there > any implementation out there using a loadbalancing cluster > doing samba? > > A simple diagram of the setup I have in mind: > > Users (+/- 500) > ||| > Headnode(Director 1) - Headnode (Director 2) > | > Worknode - Worknode - Worknode ... > | > Large RAID5 NAS boxes (NFS only) > > Thanks for any information/pointers in the right direction. > (all directions are open: lvs,mosix,<???>) > > > Regards, > |^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > | Leroy(dot)vanLogchem (at) wldelft(dot)nl > | Systems Group > | WL | Delft Hydraulics - http://www.wldelft.nl > |________________________________________ > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- Matt Schillinger System Administrator FlightSafety International [EMAIL PROTECTED] 314-551-8403 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
