On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 11:09:45PM +0800, James Davis wrote: > Hi Patrick, > I'm hoping you can explain to me, and if I have the right idea > about GFS/GNBD > > I'm referring to this document http://gfs.wikidev.net/GNBD_installation for > the purposes of config > > What I'm trying to do is setup GNBD on 2 machines.. I'm wondering if its > possible for the two mahines to cluster the data on the local hdd's rather > than using an external storage array.. No. Not without cluster aware mirror software, which isn't available just yet. Otherwise, you run into the problem where If a node crashes, it might have written to one device and not the other. So your mirror can be out of sync, and the other machine will never know. -Ben > i.e machine raid0. basically replicated volumes... > > Also if this IS possible, am I right in assuming if one machine goes down > the second one will take over the primaries role... > > On the client machine how do you set it to connect to the cluster? > > The documentation seems to be very lacking and I'm somewhat stressed out > from work wondering if what I'm trying to do is possible? > > If you need more clarification on what I'm trying to do please ask. > > Sorry if this comes across as newbish > > Regards > James > > -- > > Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster -- Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
