[Ocfs2-users] OCFS2 with striping

2006-07-20 Thread Miguel Molowny Lopez
Hi all, I would like to use OCFS2 to format a set of 4 200GB slices on 4 striped disks. I would like to see an only file system of 800GB formatted as OCFS2. Is it possible to do disk grouping with OCFS2? Have I to use LVM or ASM? The problem is that I should test it with 2 nodes, so I have to

Re: [Ocfs2-users] OCFS2 and Snapshots

2006-07-20 Thread Sunil Mushran
OCFS2 relies on the uniqueness of the uuid for it to distinguish between different volumes. One cannot mount two volumes having the same uuid on the same node. Infact, one should not do that across the cluster too, i.e., mount two different physical volumes having the same identical uuid. If you

Re: [Ocfs2-users] OCFS2 and Snapshots

2006-07-20 Thread Andre Brinkmann
Hello Alexei, yes I am sure :-). We have developed the software at our research lab and it has been extensively tested in productive environments for most Linux distributions and kernel versions (2.4.21 - 2.6.17). Up to now, we have mostly used it with single server file systems like XFS,

Re: [Ocfs2-users] OCFS2 and Snapshots

2006-07-20 Thread Joel Becker
On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 07:54:57PM +0200, Andre Brinkmann wrote: Similar to OCFS2, XFS relies on the uniqueness of a serial number. But with XFS, I am able to change this uid with a user space admin tool. I hope to find (or implement) similar features in OCFS2 to be able to support