On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 21:37 +0800, Zama Ques wrote: > Thanks Steve for the reply . As you said setting up a cluster is > needed to use GFS2 with multiple nodes, does that mean that I need to > create cluster.conf or running cluster services (cman etc) should be > fine for setting up GFS2. Not sure whether cman will run without > creating cluster.conf > > Assuming that I need to setup cluster.conf in order to use GFS2 , that > means if there are two nodes in the cluster with GFS2 as file system > resource , GFS2 will be mounted on only one host based on failover > domain policy . But our requirement is like that GFS2 should be > mounted on both servers at the same time . Based on my little > understanding of GFS , looks to me that I will not be able to achieve > this using GFS2 or there are some way to achieve this ? Hi, This may be a little bit off-topic for this list (as it focuses on the clustering suite) but if all you need is a shared filesystem (without the clustering) you may want to take a look at glusterfs (www.gluster.org). Cheers, Radu -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
