Hi all,

  The attached RA deals with SCSI-2 reservation. It's a POC, not
carefully tested so far.
  So just FYI.

  I'd like to implement SCSI-2 & 3 reservation as STONITH plugins in
the near future, when
I get my hands free. ;)


2008/6/3 Dejan Muhamedagic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 02:00:14PM -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Robert Heinzmann (ml) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
>> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > besides STONITH another (as I would say additional) approach in shared scsi
>> > clusters is to use scsi reservations (2 or 3) to reserve a disk for a host
>> > and avoid data integrity problems.
>> >
>> > A situation were SCSI reservations are useful is the automatic mounting of 
>> > a
>> > cluster protected fs. If the administrator left the mount entry in
>> > /etc/fstab for a cluster protected FS and additionally the application
>> > accessing the FS is still enabled in sysv init, the fs is mounted and the
>> > app is startet during system boot. This is true also if STONITH was
>> > susccessful (not reset not power down). To avoid this SCSI reservations can
>> > be used (of course a cluster _SHOULD_ be configured correctly and tested
>> > extensivly, however things happen - think of it as an airbag).
>> >
>> > Is there a SCSI2 or SCSI PR reservation OCF agent out there ? Has anyone
>> > configured something like this in HB2 ?
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Robert
>>
>> There is the FC equivalent that controls visibility via the FC-fabric.
>
> Somebody wanted to port the one from the Redhat's Cluster Suite,
> but didn't here from them since then. Is there another one?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dejan
>
>> Would that work for you?  If not, you might consider it as a starting point.
>>
>> Greg
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