Nicolas Ross wrote:
So today I dug up on Gfs2 on Redhat's site and it petty much fits my need. It seems to be a very powerfull solution. If I understand correctly, I need to setup a cluster of nodes to use Gfs. Fine with that. But since it's not a real "cluster", do I stil need the quorum to operate the global file system ? On our setup, a particular service runs on a single node from the shared filesystem.
If you want the FS mounted on all nodes at the same time then all those nodes must be a part of the cluster, and they have to be quorate (majority of nodes have to be up). You don't need a quorum block device, but it can be useful when you have only 2 nodes.
If you are only ever going to have the SAN volume mounted on one device at a time, don't bother with GFS and make the SAN block device a fail-over resource so that only one node can mount it at a time, and put a normal non-shared FS on it. You will get better performance.
The documentation on redhat's site is very technichal, but lacks some beginer's hints. For instance, there's a part about the required number of journal to create and the size of those. But I cannot find suggested size or any thumb-rule for those...
The number of journals needs to be equal to or greater than the number of nodes you have in a cluster. e.g. if you have 5 nodes in a cluster, you need at least 5 journals. If you think you might upgrade your cluster to 10 nodes at some point in the future, then create 10 journals, as this needs to be done at FS creation time.
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