[DRBD-user] Alternatives to NFS ?

Jeff Fisher jeff at lfchosting.com
Fri Feb 17 16:45:34 CET 2006

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Pierre Ancelot wrote:
> I'm afraid i have to change my system, i rnu drbd/NFS/heartbeat on a
> linux 2.6.
> It HANGS if i ever do anything that overloads it a little and it keeps
> on hanging bad, all my cluster becomes unavailable... (too bad for an
> high availability cluster).
> On worst cases i have to reboot all my nodes.
> I even think about having an SMB share so bad it goes...
> Any idea what's going on ? maybe a config issue of NFS
> Maybe, as i have read recently, NFS on linux sucks.
> Any alternative viable ?  i can't let this cluster run on doubts.

When I tested samba + drbd + keepalived, if I pulled the plug on the
primary and caused a failover to the secondary -- there was massive data
corruption when using samba.

Does anyone use drbd + samba and have it handle failovers nicely?

Jeff
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