On 9/23/07, Nick Couchman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, Everyone, > I'm running SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 and trying to get a sort of > clustered file server setup going. SLES10 uses heartbeat for the > clustering/HA setup, and I've chosen GFS for the filesystem to back the > system. I'd like to use GFS because I want both file servers (and our backup > server) to have access to the file system simultaneously (the backup system > can access it read-only). If one of the servers fails I'd like to avoid the > issue of having the backup server remount it.
you might want to consider OCFS2 instead http://wiki.novell.com/images/3/37/Exploring_HASF.pdf the major advantage being that everything is using the same membership layers (so you dont get the FS thinking a node is part of the cluster while heartbeat thinks its dead - or vice-versa) check out the above url for details on setting it all up on sles10 > > Anyway, I'd like to set up heartbeat with NFS and Samba shares for the > directories on the file system. I'm trying to use hb_gui to set this up, and > I have a few questions. > 1) First, can I have both servers share out the same NFS volumes > simultaneously? I know Samba doesn't work well (at all) in this scenario > because Samba doesn't (currently) have a way of sharing file locking > information between multiple instances of Samba. I'm wondering if that's > also a limitation of NFS or if NFS can handle the file locking? > 2) I need to know how to set up the resources, exports files, and Samba > configurations. Most of the configurations seem to point to having "normal" > filesystems (ext3, etc.), that are mounted when the heartbeat configuration > starts and move between systems as necessary. A lot of them also seem to > have the NFS service running on one system or another and not NFS servers on > both systems, which is what I'm going for. > > Thanks, > Nick > _______________________________________________ > Linux-HA mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha > See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems > _______________________________________________ Linux-HA mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems
