Re: [Linux-cluster] About GFS1 and I/O barriers.

2008-03-31 Thread Steven Whitehouse
Hi, Both GFS1 and GFS2 are safe from this problem since neither of them use barriers. Instead we do a flush at the critical points to ensure that all data is on disk before proceeding with the next stage. Using barriers can improve performance in certain cases, but we've not yet implemented them

Re: [Linux-cluster] SCSI Reservations Red Hat Cluster Suite

2008-03-31 Thread Maciej Bogucki
Tomasz Sucharzewski napisaƂ(a): Hello, Ryan O'Hara wrote: 4 - Limitations ... - Multipath devices are not currently supported. What is the reason - it is strongly required to use at least two HBA in a SAN network, which is useless when using scsi reservation. Hello, There is need

Re: [Linux-cluster] SCSI Reservations Red Hat Cluster Suite

2008-03-31 Thread Maciej Bogucki
I believe that this is only a limitation for RHEL4. RHEL5 should have a fix that allows dm-multipath to properly pass ioctls to all devices. Hello, One problem is registration, but another problem is un-registration fe. when there is failover from one HBA to another and failback. Third problem

Re: [Linux-cluster] SCSI reservation conflicts after update

2008-03-31 Thread Maciej Bogucki
From my understanding persistent SCSI reservations are only needed if I am using the fence_scsi module. Yes. Best Regards Maciej Bogucki -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster

[Linux-cluster] (newbie) mirrored data / cluster ?

2008-03-31 Thread Daniel Maher
Hello all, I have spent the day reading through the mailing list archives, Redhat documentation, and CentOS forums, and - to be frank - my head is now swimming with information. My scenario seems reasonably straightforward : I would like to have two file servers which mirror each others' data,

Re: [Linux-cluster] Unformatting a GFS cluster disk

2008-03-31 Thread DRand
Hi, We're making some progress on recovering our GFS disk.. We've created a small c app, which marked all bytes as 0xff on: grp hdr: with offset 80 grp blk: with offset 120 But fsck takes ages to run (looks like weeks on our full disk). If we run on a smaller disk the process completes

RE: [Linux-cluster] (newbie) mirrored data / cluster ?

2008-03-31 Thread MARTI, ROBERT JESSE
You don't have to have a mirrored LVM to do what youre trying to do. You just need a common mountable share - typically a SAN or NAS. It shouldn't be too hard to configure (and I've already done it). You don't even *have* to have cluster suite - if you have a load balancer. My brain isn't fast

Re: [Linux-cluster] (newbie) mirrored data / cluster ?

2008-03-31 Thread Chris Harms
The non-SAN option would be to use DRBD (http://www.drbd.org) and put NFS, Samba, etc on top of the DRBD partition. Chris MARTI, ROBERT JESSE wrote: You don't have to have a mirrored LVM to do what youre trying to do. You just need a common mountable share - typically a SAN or NAS. It

[Linux-cluster] drbd and gfs

2008-03-31 Thread Tiago Cruz
Hi, I'm trying to do the follow setup: http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2723/1994/1600/plan.jpg Extracted from this link: http://linuxsutra.blogspot.com/2006/11/howto-gfs-gnbd.html But, my GNBD Server has one dom0 and my nodes has two domU's, all running RHEL 5.1 x86_84. 10.25.2.1

[Linux-cluster] GNBD and GFS (was: drbd and gfs)

2008-03-31 Thread Tiago Cruz
Hello all, Sorry... wrong subject! I was with drbd on my head, but I don't like him because I just can use 2 (two) nodes. The correct subject it's gnbd and GFS! I hope that someone can help me! Regards On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 15:52 -0300, Tiago Cruz wrote: Hi, I'm trying to do the follow

[Linux-cluster] Using GFS and DLM without RHCS

2008-03-31 Thread Danny Wall
I was wondering if it is possible to run GFS on several machines with a shared GFS LUN, but not use full clustering like RHCS. From the FAQs: Can I setup GFS on a single node and then add additional nodes later? Yes you can. For the initial single node setup, simply setup GFS

Re: [Linux-cluster] Using GFS and DLM without RHCS

2008-03-31 Thread Gordan Bobic
Danny Wall wrote: I was wondering if it is possible to run GFS on several machines with a shared GFS LUN, but not use full clustering like RHCS. From the FAQs: First of all, what's the problem with having RHCS running? It doesn't mean you have to use it to handle resources failing over. You