[Linux-cluster] strange GFS problem

[Lon Hohberger]

On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 06:41 -0700, Igor wrote:

> Two machines alice (HDs 1 & 2) & bob (HDs 3 & 4).
> 
> I gnbd export 2 to bob and 4 to alice.  Then I LVM
> mirror 2 & 4 on both alice & bob.  Then GFS on top of
> that.

> Will that work?

I really doubt it.  If it does, it's purely coincidental.

You could look at ddraid, but it's at an early stage of development.

You can also use something like DRBD, but that will not allow write
access from multiple nodes (only active/backup), so you can't use GFS
with it in any meaningful way.

-- Lon