Just two cents, I believe Red Hat does support GFS2 on single server using lock_nolock, because we do SAN "snaps" of actively clustered GFS2 volumes (simple flatfiles, no databases) and present the snap luns to a media agent server to backup the data oob. RHN was okay with that configuration and we have been running it this way on GFS and GFS2 for 5-years without issue. -----Original Message----- From: linux-cluster-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-cluster-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bob Peterson Sent: Monday, February 14, 2011 8:37 AM To: linux clustering Subject: Re: want to use GFS2 ----- Original Message ----- | Hi, | | You need to setup a simple cluster and a proper fencing mechanism . No | need to configure any services since you want to use GFS2 on both the | nodes. | Start the cluster, mount the gfs2 by /etc/fstab entry. | | Note: You can't use GFS2 without a Cluster setup. | | Dominic Hi, Well, technically you can use GFS2 without a cluster setup. I believe Red Hat doesn't support it, and the storage can't be mounted by more than a single computer (with "lock_nolock" locking protocol), but it can be done. Regards, Bob Peterson Red Hat File Systems -- 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
