[Linux-cluster] A few GFS newbie questions: journals, etc

Nate Carlson natecars at natecarlson.com
Thu Jun 9 17:15:11 UTC 2005


On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Lon Hohberger wrote:
> Interesting.
>
> If you had 5 physical machines, you could have xen0 be the lock_gulm 
> master and only have xenU access the GFS volumes acting as clients. 
> Doing it this way should theoretically allow 2 physical boxes to fail 
> and any number of xenUs fail...

So with lock_gulm, I couldn't run the 4 xen0's as lock_gulm masters, and 
lose two?

I do have a fifth box (firewall) that I could probably also run as a 
lock_gulm master. Maybe I should consider that.. :)

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