[Linux-cluster] GFS over DRBD

[Lon Hohberger]

On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 16:12 +0100, Jos Vos wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 04:01:09PM +0100, amrossi at linux.it wrote:
> 
> >  <<Since DRBD-8.0.0 you can run both nodes in the primary role, enabling
> > to  mount a cluster file system (a physical parallel file system) one
> > both nodes concurrently. Examples for such file systems are OCFS2 and
> > GFS.>>
> 
> I didn't know about this feature.  It looks like this enables you to
> run GFS without shared storage on 2 nodes (i.e. using two disks on
> two nodes that are replicated as the device for GFS).
> 
> Is this what you were looking for?  I think DRBD only handles 2 nodes,
> but I might be wrong in that.
> 

You're right.  2 nodes max.

-- Lon