--- Daniel Phillips <phillips@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wednesday 15 June 2005 09:41, Igor wrote: > > > Eventually you should be able to combine gnbd > with > > > cluster mirroring > > > to do this sort of thing. Not possible yet, > though. > > > > Rats. > > > > What if I do this: > > > > Two machines alice (HDs 1 & 2) & bob (HDs 3 & 4). > > > > I gnbd export 2 to bob and 4 to alice. Then I LVM > > mirror 2 & 4 on both alice & bob. Then GFS on top > of > > that. > > > > Will that work? > > You did not say anything about drives 1 and 3. I > presume they play no part in your example. correct. the simply house the OS. > So your arrangement is ok as long as > resynchronization is never needed. you mean resync in case of a failure of a drive or in case a network disconnect? > not) but as others have pointed out, you really need > to use a proper cluster mirror when it becomes I understand but I need something now. Turns out lvcreate cannot do mirrors (I can't believe it!) so I can't even use my own example. Is there another LVM package that I can use for this purpose? Also, ddraid looks seriously pre-alpha to me. I'm installing a dvlpmnt platform but still. __________________________________ Discover Yahoo! Stay in touch with email, IM, photo sharing and more. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/stayintouch.html -- Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
