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<p class=MsoNormal>Hello Everyone!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>I have been spending the past 2 months messing with
clusters. I built an active\passive 2 years ago with samba and wanted to see how
CTDB has been doing.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Long story short, I cannot pass the ping_pong test after
following the clusters from scratch guide for fedora 13. I can get ping_pong to
work in SLES11 under ocfs2.. but only once. Don’t know what I did
to make it work for both nodes, but it quit. I have tried GFS2 for Ubuntu 10.04
and Fedora 13. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>I can get a node to mount has jid=1 but not both nodes.
Feeling frustrated. I have the latest packages, etc. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Worse my goal was to have an active\active samba cluster
with the clients not noticing a node failure but I read that wont be possible
until SMB2. So now I am wondering what to do.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Maybe I should go for a virtual machine that is clustered
instead of samba? I could throw on XP and use Sybase\Mysql\MSSQL without any
major hassles I suppose and would be more beneficial then using Samba and CTDB?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Still annoys me that I cant pass the ping pong test. I am
going to format and try again. I gave my client a quote for steel-eye and Failover
Server and I think it was too expensive. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>-Justin Shafer<o:p></o:p></p>
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