On 11/11/05, Michael Will <mwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > In our case there would be a serial and an ethernet heartbeat between > the systems. > > If one system detects the lack of responsiveness of the other system, it > shuts it down, > does an IP takeover and mounts the partition that belonged to the other > system and > now offers it under the new IP address. When the other system has been > brought up > again, and has been considered stable, it is being advised to take back > it's ressource, > which does initiate the other system to release it and once that has > been confirmed, it > takes over the IP address and starts it's nfs service for that partition > again. > > I have only configured this for active/passive setups with a single > partition so far, but > to extend that to two partitions and an active/active setup should not > be too hard. > > Michael Thanks Michael. We probably would need more than one partition, probably somewhere around 5, just so we keep data segregated and manageable. I still have yet to get my hands on a setup to test things out, but from all the docs I've been reading the number of partitions shouldn't be a problem. -- Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
