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[Dan.Askew at jmsmucker.com]

Kristoffer,

Thanks for all the help. One last question....

Instead of GFS what do you think of OCFS2 from oracle...it is opensource 
It appears to accomplish the same funtion as GFS (I am still reading the 
material).







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Hi,
 
A fence device is a device that can "build a fence" around a node, and 
thus keep it from corrupting a shared filesystem.
Most commonly i think a powerswitch is used. It simply cuts the power to 
the decfunct server.
It looks and works like this:
http://www.wti.com/guides/rpb115ug.htm
(but there are ofcourse loads of brands avaliabel - No, I don't work for 
WTI ;-)
 
Alternatively there is the option of "cutting" the network from the server 
(that would be the network between server and disks), using a switch. I 
have not tried that method of fencing, so someone else might be able to 
fill in. 

Depending on the topology of your cluster (are your disks connected thrugh 
a dedicated fiber net or for instance iscsi.) the need to "cut" the 
defective server off from the disks will be different.
 
So in short, A fence device can be many things. :-)
 
Hope it make sence
/Kristoffer
 

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Could you elaborate on the fence device.  What would suggest using ? 





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Hi, 
  
You need gfs for the changes to appear on both servers. With GFS, when one 
server changes a file, the other server is made aware of the changes. Also 
GFS takes care of file locking. Also you need a fencedevice, so the 
cluster can shutdown a "defective" server, and make sure it dosn't corrupt 
the GFS. 
  
For your current setup: 
When you have both servers running, you could mount the ext3 fs on both 
servers, but only the server that writes a file, will be aware of it. The 
other server will be aware of the new file when you remount the fs. 
  
Hope this helps a bit. 
  
Kind Regards 
Kristoffer 
 
 

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Greetings all, 

I am an old veteran of HP-UX Service Guard. I am trying to get a NFS linux 
Cluster working and need some advise. 

I have read the NFS Cookbook from Redhat and have a the following working 

2 Node Linux Cluster  (RHEL AS 4.0 update 5) 

one test disk LVM formated ext3 (have not decided onGFS or not) 

Use Vitual IPAddress to access the disks via NFS 

When SYSTEMA  runs the service and the client machine access the disk and 
makes changes. Then I fail over to SYSTEMB these changes made by the 
client are not present. 

I am runing CLVMD deamon 
The LVM disks are mounted on both systems 
I have made the following changes to LVM.CONF 

(I have tried locking_type = 2 and locking_type = 3) both have he same 
results. (as above) 

Sorry for my ignorance but can anyone tell me what I am doing 
wrong...would GFS solve the syncing problem? 




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