> But that can't work. corosync (when using cman) needs cluster.conf to
> start up. So if the filesystem depends on corosync you have a catch-22
> situation: the filesystem can't be mounted because corosync isn't
> running

That is no problem. You can mount the filesystem, but it is read-only
as long as the node does not have quorum.

> and corosync can't start because the filesystem holding its
> configuration isn't mounted.
> 
> This is why cluster.conf is always read from the local disk. It's the
> only thing guaranteed to be there at the time. There are ways of
> holding configuration in LDAP but they are not very mature at the moment.
> 
> A simple distributed filesystem sounds interesting though. Is it
> generally available ?

I can post the code if you want (it is GPL)? But do not expect too much, it 
is just a prototype I use too learn how corosync works.

- Dietmar

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