[Linux-cluster] GFS over DRBD

[Jos Vos]

On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 03:30:15PM +0100, amrossi at linux.it wrote:

> can i use DRBD over a GFS cluster with 4/5 nodes?

No.

When using GFS, you access a block device concurrently from several
nodes.  DRBD is meant for replicating block device operations, so
this can't work when that device is written by more than one node.

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