[Linux-cluster] GFS configuration help

[Jake Gold]

All,

Are there any special concerns or steps when using one read-write node and many read-only nodes?

In this scenerio do you still have to setup all the usual components  in the same way (locking, fencing, ...) ? Can anything be left out when you only have one node doing writes?

How many people are doing this? Anyone know of any how-tos/documents regarding this specific configuration?


Thanks to everyone at Sistina and Red Hat for all their hard work on GFS!

Thanks,
Jake


On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 11:38:02 +0200
"Richard Mayhew" <rmayhew at mweb.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> Ill send you the documentation away from this list (its 5MB) 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dexter Eugenio [mailto:deks at sbcglobal.net] 
> Sent: 14 July 2004 08:35 PM
> To: linux-cluster at redhat.com
> Subject: [Linux-cluster] GFS configuration help
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Need your help for my proposed setup below.
> 
> 1. machine1 is the host server that is connected to the SAN, mounts the
> filesystem. This machine has read-write capability on the filesystem.
> 2. machine2, machine3, machine4 etc..  are the servers that mounts the
> same filesystem with read only capability. they are connected to a fiber
> switch.
> 3. future machines will be connected to the switch to mount the same
> filesystem as read only.
> 
> Upon reading various docs, it says that i have to configure clustering?
> I'm not sure if that is needed in my setup. All i want to do is to
> emulate NFS capability, but instead of using the network, my machines
> are connected directly to the SAN. I might be wrong?
> 
> Btw, i'm running RH ES 3.0 and has the GFS rpms from Redhat. I've
> installed it fine but I have no idea on how to configure it. 
> 
> I hope you can help me with any information you can give.
> 
> Regards,
> Deks
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