On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 14:14 +0100, Stephen Willey wrote: > If the GFS filesystem is built over several discs LVMed together, how > will it behave in the event of a failure of one of those discs (when > setup with a linear striped LVM)? > > Is there any way of securing the filesystem against the failure of any > one physical volume? > With GFS this needs to be handled at the storage layer, you'll need a storage subsystem that supports some form of RAID (4/5/1+0/etc) to keep disk failures from destroying your filesystem. You can't use software RAID, or LVM, since they aren't currently cluster aware. Thanks, Eric Kerin eric@xxxxxxxxxxx -- Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
