[Linux-cluster] Two nodes cluster issue without shared storage issue

2008-10-16 Thread Chen, Mockey (NSN - CN/Cheng Du)
Hi, I want to set up a two node cluster, I use active/standby mode to run my service. I need even one node's hardware failure such as power cut, another node still can handover from failure node and the provide the service. In my environment, I have no shared storage, so I can not use quorum

[Linux-cluster] GFS Tunables

2008-10-16 Thread Brandon Young
Hi all, I currently have a GFS deployment consisting of eight servers and several GFS volumes. One of my GFS servers is a dedicated backup server with a second replica SAN attached to it through a second HBA. My approach to backups has been with tools such as rsync and rdiff-backup, run on a

Re: [Linux-cluster] fencing problem

2008-10-16 Thread Kevin Anderson
Shawn, Not sure about your problem, but there is an issue with your cluster.conf file. You should remove this line: cman expected_votes=1 two_node=0/ Since you have more than 2 nodes in your cluster. Looks like an artifact from running a two node cluster and then upgrading. When

Re: [Linux-cluster] fencing problem

2008-10-16 Thread Shawn Hood
It is indeed an artifact of times past. Thanks for pointing this out! Shawn On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Kevin Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shawn, Not sure about your problem, but there is an issue with your cluster.conf file. You should remove this line: cman

Re: [Linux-cluster] GFS Tunables

2008-10-16 Thread Jos Vos
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 10:50:53AM -0500, Wendy Cheng wrote: Unless other GFS folks can give you more ideas, I think your best bet at this moment is to think outside the box. That is, don't do file-to-file backup if all possible. Check out other block level backup strategies. Are Linux LVM

Re: [Linux-cluster] GFS Tunables

2008-10-16 Thread Gordan Bobic
Jos Vos wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 10:50:53AM -0500, Wendy Cheng wrote: Unless other GFS folks can give you more ideas, I think your best bet at this moment is to think outside the box. That is, don't do file-to-file backup if all possible. Check out other block level backup strategies.

Re: [Linux-cluster] GFS Tunables

2008-10-16 Thread Jos Vos
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 05:44:20PM +0100, Gordan Bobic wrote: Since you're experimenting, OCFS2 might be worth trying, on the offchance that it works better for your specific usage pattern. Not that kind of experimenting ;-), I want it to be based on RHEL5. -- --Jos Vos [EMAIL

Re: [Linux-cluster] GFS Tunables

2008-10-16 Thread Gordan Bobic
Jos Vos wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 05:44:20PM +0100, Gordan Bobic wrote: Since you're experimenting, OCFS2 might be worth trying, on the offchance that it works better for your specific usage pattern. Not that kind of experimenting ;-), I want it to be based on RHEL5. OCFS2 will run on

Re: [Linux-cluster] GFS Tunables

2008-10-16 Thread Brandon Young
Wendy, We have searched high and low for an alternative to file-to-file backups, especially looking block level backups. The only product we've found that supports GFS is Bak Bone Replicator. My first crack at installing it was late last week. The experience was worrisome. The replicator

Re: [Linux-cluster] GFS Tunables

2008-10-16 Thread Gordan Bobic
Brandon Young wrote: As for LVM snapshotting ... I am under the impression that those features are unavailable in GFS (and are slated for GFS2? Which is not production ready, yet?) It has certainly occured to me to try that feature, if only it were available. Am I misinformed? Perhaps I

Re: [Linux-cluster] GFS Tunables

2008-10-16 Thread Gordan Bobic
Kevin Anderson wrote: On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 21:29 +0100, Gordan Bobic wrote: Brandon Young wrote: As for LVM snapshotting ... I am under the impression that those features are unavailable in GFS (and are slated for GFS2? Which is not production ready, yet?) It has certainly occured to me

RE: [Linux-cluster] GFS Tunables

2008-10-16 Thread Steffen Plotner
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gordan Bobic Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 4:48 PM To: linux clustering Subject: Re: [Linux-cluster] GFS Tunables Kevin Anderson wrote: On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 21:29 +0100, Gordan Bobic wrote:

[Linux-cluster] Email alert

2008-10-16 Thread Patricio A. Bruna
Its possible to configure Cluster Suite to send an email when a service change host or faild to failover? Patricio Bruna V. IT Linux Ltda. http://www.it-linux.cl Fono : (+56-2) 333 0578 - Chile Fono: (+54-11) 6632 2760 - Argentina Móvil : (+56-09) 8827

Re: [Linux-cluster] GFS Tunables

2008-10-16 Thread Tom Lanyon
On 17/10/2008, at 7:05 AM, Kevin Anderson wrote: We don't have support for cluster snapshots as of yet even though it has been on the todo list for about 5 years now :(. Kevin I asked recently on the lvm list what the status of CLVM snapshotting was and got no response... :) --

RE: [Linux-cluster] Email alert

2008-10-16 Thread Mark Chaney
No, but you can use a monitoring service like nagios to do that. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patricio A. Bruna Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 11:03 PM To: linux-cluster@redhat.com Subject: [Linux-cluster] Email alert Its possible to configure Cluster