Re: [ClusterLabs] [Slightly OT] OCFS2 over LVM

2015-08-25 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On 08/24/2015 12:20 PM, Digimer wrote: > Speaking from a gfs2 background, but assuming it's similar in concept to > ocfs2... > > Cluster locking comes at a performance cost. All locks need to be > coordinated between the nodes, and that will always be slower that local > locking only. They are als

Re: [ClusterLabs] [Slightly OT] OCFS2 over LVM

2015-08-24 Thread Kai Dupke
On 08/24/2015 06:20 PM, Digimer wrote: > Cluster locking comes at a performance cost. All locks need to be > coordinated between the nodes, and that will always be slower that local > locking only. They are also far less commonly used than options like nfs. right. > Using a pair of nodes with a t

Re: [ClusterLabs] [Slightly OT] OCFS2 over LVM

2015-08-24 Thread Digimer
On 24/08/15 07:55 AM, Jorge Fábregas wrote: > On 08/24/2015 06:52 AM, Kai Dupke wrote: >> Not sure what you want to run on top of your 2-node cluster, but OCFS2 >> is only needed when you need a shared file system. > > This is for an application that manages the high-availability by itself > (in a

Re: [ClusterLabs] [Slightly OT] OCFS2 over LVM

2015-08-24 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On 08/24/2015 06:52 AM, Kai Dupke wrote: > Not sure what you want to run on top of your 2-node cluster, but OCFS2 > is only needed when you need a shared file system. This is for an application that manages the high-availability by itself (in an active/active fashion) and the only thing that's nee

Re: [ClusterLabs] [Slightly OT] OCFS2 over LVM

2015-08-24 Thread Kai Dupke
On 08/23/2015 08:13 PM, Jorge Fábregas wrote: [...] Not sure what you want to run on top of your 2-node cluster, but OCFS2 is only needed when you need a shared file system. For plain failover with volumes managed by cLVM you don't need OCFS2 (and can save one level of complexity). greetings Kai

Re: [ClusterLabs] [Slightly OT] OCFS2 over LVM

2015-08-23 Thread Digimer
On 23/08/15 04:40 PM, Jorge Fábregas wrote: > On 08/23/2015 02:16 PM, Digimer wrote: >> One, this is on-topic, so don't worry. :) > > Thanks. > >> Two, I've never used ocfs2 (allergic to all things Oracle), but clvmd >> makes LVM cluster-aware, as you know. So I have no idea why they'd say >> tha

Re: [ClusterLabs] [Slightly OT] OCFS2 over LVM

2015-08-23 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On 08/23/2015 02:16 PM, Digimer wrote: > One, this is on-topic, so don't worry. :) Thanks. > Two, I've never used ocfs2 (allergic to all things Oracle), but clvmd > makes LVM cluster-aware, as you know. So I have no idea why they'd say > that. I just restarted everything and then it worked. I wa

Re: [ClusterLabs] [Slightly OT] OCFS2 over LVM

2015-08-23 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On 08/23/2015 03:35 PM, emmanuel segura wrote: > please, share your cluster logs && config and so on. Thanks Emmanuel. I wiped everyting; reverted to previous known good-snapshot on my VMs :) But it does work indeed as I just mentioned Digimer. -- Jorge ___

Re: [ClusterLabs] [Slightly OT] OCFS2 over LVM

2015-08-23 Thread emmanuel segura
please, share your cluster logs && config and so on. 2015-08-23 20:16 GMT+02:00 Digimer : > On 23/08/15 02:13 PM, Jorge Fábregas wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm still doing some tests on SLES 11 SP4 & I was trying to run >> "mkfs.ocfs2" against a logical volume (with all infrastructure >> ready: cLVM & DL

Re: [ClusterLabs] [Slightly OT] OCFS2 over LVM

2015-08-23 Thread Digimer
On 23/08/15 02:13 PM, Jorge Fábregas wrote: > Hi, > > I'm still doing some tests on SLES 11 SP4 & I was trying to run > "mkfs.ocfs2" against a logical volume (with all infrastructure > ready: cLVM & DLM & o2cb) but it gives me errors while creating it. If > I run it against a raw device (no LVM)

[ClusterLabs] [Slightly OT] OCFS2 over LVM

2015-08-23 Thread Jorge Fábregas
Hi, I'm still doing some tests on SLES 11 SP4 & I was trying to run "mkfs.ocfs2" against a logical volume (with all infrastructure ready: cLVM & DLM & o2cb) but it gives me errors while creating it. If I run it against a raw device (no LVM) it works. Then I found this from an Oracle PDF: "It is