[Linux-cluster] Re: If I have 5 GNBD server?

[Michael]

On 8/27/05, brianu <brianu at silvercash.com> wrote:
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> This is a question I have basically been asking, the question on why you
> would want to do it is failover, the docs at
> http://sourceware.org/cluster/gnbd/gnbd_usage.txt state
> that dm-multipath is an option for gnbd, and documents elsewhere also
> indicate that GNBD can be configured as a redundancy, yet I cannot find any
> documentation on how to configure it. 
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> If using LVM to make a volume of imported gnbds is not the answer for
> redundancy can anyone suggest a method that is? Im not opposed to using any
> other resource of cluster or GFS but I would really like to implement a
> redundant solution, ( gnbd, gulm, etc.). 
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Hi, Brianu, maybe LVM + md + gnbd should be one of the solution for
redundancy, for example, you have 2 gnbd servers, each one exports 1
disk. Then, the steps should be:
1. create a RAID-1  /dev/md0 on GFS client with imported 2 gnbd block devices.
2. use LVM  create /dev/vg0 on top of them.
3. mkfs_gfs on /dev/vg0.
I haven't tried this configuration, theoretically, it should work.

Thanks,

Michael
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> Does anyone has an example of a redundant solution for a cluster/gfs
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> Regards, 
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> Brian 
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> Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 16:33:51 +0700 
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> From: "Fajar A. Nugraha" <fajar at telkom.co.id> 
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> Subject: Re: [Linux-cluster] Re: If I have 5 GNBD server? 
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> To: linux clustering <linux-cluster at redhat.com> 
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> Michael wrote: 
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> >Can anyone answer my question? 
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> I don't think LVM cares what kind of storage it uses, as long as it's a 
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> block device. 
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> So theoretically, you can mix local disc, FC storage, GNBD, and ATOE and 
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> combine them using LVM. You might run into performance issues (GNBD are 
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> slower than FC disks) and startup issues (LVM has to start after cluster 
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> and gnbd-import successfuly start), but it should be possible. 
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> The real question is WHY you want to do that. 
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> AFAIK, if you combine 5 gnbd from 5 gnbd servers into one LVM, and you 
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> are accessing a volume on that volume group, and one of the gnbd server 
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> dies (or hangs), gnbd import will wait forever until that server is back 
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> up. So you'll have five more single-point-of-failures. 
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> Regards, 
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> Fajar 
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> >On 8/26/05, Michael <mikore.li at gmail.com> wrote: 
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> >>If I have 5 gnbd servers in the network, each one export 1 block 
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> >>device, can I import all gnbd devices on each gfs client, and use lvm 
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> >>to manage them as 1 shared pool, then mkfs_gfs on it? 
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> >>Thanks, 
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> >>Michael 
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> Brian Urrutia 
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