[Linux-cluster] choosing the right setup

[Tony Fraser]

On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 02:40, Alexander Opitz wrote:
> Am Freitag, 24. September 2004 06:37 schrieb Kevin P. Fleming:
> > People have successfully used IEEE-1394 (Firewire) drives in this way;
> > connected to both machines at once, and accessed from both machines at
> > once.
> 
> I've nothing more then what I've told ... so I've also no FireWire or any 
> other SCSI like thinks :-/
> 
> Greetings Alex//
> 
> PS: Am I the first person who have such problems?

I've been lurking on the list for a while now. I'm hoping to use GFS in
a similar situation. 

I have yet to actually setup GFS at all but I what I was hoping to do is
use DRBD and Heartbeat to have a active/passive mirror of the data then
use gnbd on an aliased/takeover IP address to export the GFS file system
to the rest of the cluster.

I have no idea if it will work or not.

I also recall that Philipp has said it wouldn't be that big of a deal to
make DRBD active/active specifically for this situation. Now that GFS is
once again open source there may be more interest in doing the work to
make DRBD active/active. It's been quite a while since I messed with
DRBD but you may want to look into it.


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