On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 11:48 -0500, Nate Carlson wrote: > My case is a little different - we're not talking physical hardware here, > it's virtual machines. I think you said that originally, and I completely forgot about that fact. > I've got 4 physical boxes, and will be running ~15-20 virtual machines on > these physical boxes. I'd like to be able to tolerate any of the virtual > machines going down, and still have the remaining VM's able to get to GFS. > (Many of the VM's are just development toys, so will be rebooted / halted > / started on a regular basis.) Interesting. If you had 5 physical machines, you could have xen0 be the lock_gulm master and only have xenU access the GFS volumes acting as clients. Doing it this way should theoretically allow 2 physical boxes to fail and any number of xenUs fail... (Rik?) -- Lon -- Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
