Re: Remove the clusterness from GFS

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On Jan 8, 2007, at 12:39 PM, Lin Shen (lshen) wrote:

All we need is a cluster file system to aggregate local disks attached
to different nodes into a shared storage pool. GFS+GNBD fits in our
requirement nicely except the cluster suite that comes with it. We
really don't need/want to turn our system into a cluster by using GFS
since we're not very clear about what are the side effects that would
bring in. Would it slow down the system more, take up more memory and
affect the system bootup and shutdown sequencies etc? How easy is it to
remove some or all of the clusterness from GFS such as fencing, cman and
ccsd stuff? I understand that things like dlm must stay for GFS to work.

Dlm must know the nodes in the cluster.  It most know when they are there.  That's CMAN.  It also must have all of the configuration to support knowing that.  That's CCSd.

GFS must be able to handle a node failure of any kind.  That's fencing.

Asking to run GFS without CMAN, fencing, and CCSd is like asking to run PHPmyadmin without Apache, PHP, or MySQL.

If you aren't sharing the data between two hosts simultaneously, you might try ReiserFS/XFS with CLVM.  CLVM still requires the CMAN stack but it doesn't introduce some of the more exciting failure behavior that GFS can.

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Jayson Vantuyl
Systems Architect
Engine Yard


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