[Linux-cluster] MySQL with datadir on GFS volume

[Marko Jung]

Hi.

Gordan Bobic wrote:
>> has someone set-up an MySQL server (failover, 1 active node) using GFSv2
>> as filesystem for the datadir? I would be interested in the required changes
>> to the configuration and startup scripts to get this running.
> 
> If you are only using it in fail-over mode (i.e. you define a mysqld script
> resource tied to a fail-over IP in cluster.conf), and you will never start
> it up simultaneously on more than one machine, then it should just work out
> of the box.

Unfortunately not, it complains not to be able to open and lock the 
privilege tables:
"[ERROR] Fatal error: Can't open and lock privilege tables: Table 'host' is
  read only"
despite permissions and paths are right. Am I missing something regarding 
locking on GFSv2?

Thanks a lot!
Marko