<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.12.0"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 13:13 -0700, Christopher McCrory wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> Hello... On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 13:41 -0500, Ryan O'Hara wrote: > Christopher McCrory wrote: > > > > Has anyone tried GFS with the Dell MD3000 array? This is a SAS > > hardware raid array that can support four server connections including > > shared access. (very nice piece of hardware). I have no experience > > with GFS (yet). > > Yes. I've tested GFS with this array using the mptsas drivers that are > shipped with RHEL5. Works fine. > I have a rather large collection of static files that I serve up with apache. I would like to take one MD3000 to connect to four servers. Mark one as read/write for updating and the other three as readonly. I realize with GFS any could write, but I would like it to be as simple as possible. </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> The MD3000 we used has two controllers in a active/passive configuration. This only allows you to connect two nodes to the array to use it in a GFS configuration. <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> What kind of fencing did you use? Or is the MD3000 able to handle that part? </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> Fencing needs to be done separate from the storage array. Kevin </BODY> </HTML>