No, this will not work at all. All GFS locking is done on a filesystem level. In order to make this work you need locking on the blocksystem level . Erling On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 10:01:22AM -0400, Ed L Cashin wrote: > Hi. After learning about GFS and its locking, I'm having trouble > answering a question: What would be the problem with this scenario? > > node 1: create a RAID5 on three shared disks, /dev/md0 > > create a GFS filesystem on /dev/md0 > > node 2: using the same config file, start /dev/md0 with the same > shared disks > > node 3: using the same config file, start /dev/md0 with the same > shared disks > > Now everybody joins the cluster and mounts the filesystem. It seems > like the GFS locking would take care of most of the problems I can > think of, but I suspect there may be something tricky. > > Should this work? > > -- > Ed L Cashin <ecashin@xxxxxxxxxx> > > -- > > Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster -- Erling Nygaard nygaard@xxxxxxxxxx Red Hat Inc
