On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 08:27 -0400, Kevin Anderson wrote: > On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 09:29 -0400, Daniel Fernanduz wrote: > > Hello > > > > I am trying to implement a failover cluster with shared storage concept > > (Postgresql Database 7.4). > > RHEL AS 4.0 + RHCS + GFS > > > > I am having two gfs volumes which gets mounted by cluster when any of > > the nodes in > > cluster takes control. The volumes are getting mounted by the cluster > > whenever a node takes > > control, but not getting unmounted when the node leaves the cluster. > > Especially when primary > > node takes control, the volumes mounted on the secondary node (Node > > which gives control to the > > primary node) is not getting unmounted. Anybody plz help me to solve > > this issue. Thanks for the help in advance > > The default filesystem failover script special cases gfs filesystem > types. It knows that gfs is a cluster filesystem and you don't need > to mount/umount it in a failover environment. Typically failover > environments that utilize gfs are doing it to improve failover times > by not having to mount/umount the filesystem. That is one of the > benefits of having a cluster filesystem. If you want to just do > failover the (old)slow way, then either use ext3 or modify the > failover script. > > Kevin > > plain text document attachment (ATT268870.txt), "ATT268870.txt" > -- > Linux-cluster mailing list > Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster It's nice having the file system mounted on multiple nodes but isn't GFS I/O a bit slower since file system locks have to be requested from the first node that mounted the file system? -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
