On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 11:37:11AM -0400, Lon Hohberger wrote: > On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 04:39:05PM -0400, Randy Brown wrote: > > Right. That's the way I understood it to be. Using ext3 would require > > us to have to umount and remount the file systems to the each host after > > the failure, though, correct? In other words, would require > > administrator interaction. GFS would do this automatically without > > impacting the users. > > One would hope that the failover process handles mounting and > unmounting. You do, however, need shared storage and suitable fencing > mechanisms in place. ... that is, with ext3. With GFS, you just mount it on both nodes and the recovery occurs in the background. Again, shared storage + fencing are required. -- Lon Hohberger - Software Engineer - Red Hat, Inc. -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
