[Linux-cluster] Sane configuration?

[Nate Carlson]

On Thu, 26 May 2005, Patrick Caulfield wrote:
> I can't comment on the particular hardware but I can say that GFS runs 
> nicely inside xen. There are even xenU packages for Fedora Core 4 
> available.
>
> One thing to watch if you're building GFS & components from source is to 
> make sure that they are built with ARCH=xen on the make command-line; 
> otherwise all the timeouts are out by an order of magnitude!
>
> I've done some (rather vague) instructions at 
> http://www.cix.co.uk/~tykepenguin/xencluster.html - there's even a 
> primitive xen fencing agent there, if that helps.

Very cool - thanks! That's really helpful info. I wasn't finding any 
records of people doing Xen+GFS out on the 'net at large, so it's good to 
know it has been done.. :)

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