Perfet! Thanks a million, I didn't realize that GFS needed a fstab entry with a noauto entry to get it to work. --- Chris Edwards Smartech Corp. Div. of AirNet Group http://www.airnetgroup.com http://www.smartechcorp.net cedwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx P: 423-664-7678 x114 C: 423-593-6964 F: 423-664-7680 -----Original Message----- From: linux-cluster-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-cluster-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Brett Cave Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 4:52 AM To: linux clustering Subject: Re: GFS as a Resource On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 10:26 PM, Chris Edwards <cedwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello all again, > > I am really trying hard to figure out how this clustering works and I > appreciate any help that is given. > There are some good docs out there - read through http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Global_File_System/ > What happens if I set GFS up as a resource? Should it automatically mount > my GFS file system? there is a GFS service. If you set it to autostart, it will mount any gfs file systems defined in /etc/fstab. You would have to set up iSCSI first, and have your volumes accessible - to GFS, these just block devices, regardless of the underlying technology - DRBD / iSCSI / SAN. The order of startup should be iSCSI first, then cluster services (cman, locking service such as DLM, fencing, etc) from the cman service and once the cluster services are up, you can then mount gfs file systems, via "service gfs start". Also look into using a quorum disk in your cluster, it can help with the cluster maintaining quorum when a few nodes go down. Here is a sample gfs entry from my fs tab. /dev/sda1 /gfs/cache1 gfs num_glockd=6,noatime,noquota,nodiratime 0 0 You would replace /dev/sda1 with the path to your iSCSI device. Brett > > I am using GFS over an iscsi target. > > Thanks! > > --- > > Chris Edwards > > > > -- > Linux-cluster mailing list > Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster > -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
