On 30/01/12 12:24, David Coulson wrote: > Just to be clear, you are mounting the same LUN on both servers, or > providing two different LUNs, one to each box, then running gluster on > top? yes. I want to mount the same LUN on both servers. > What do you mean by 'multipathing'? Usually that indicates you have 2 > or more FC paths to the same LUN or target. > exactly what you have said > If you are mounting the same LUN, you will need a clustered volume > manager and filesystem (CLVMD + GFS2 or OCFS2). Gluster would probably > have a lot of issues working in this configuration, since it doesn't > know that the two bricks comprising your volume are really the same > thing. > ok. I see can't use gluster for this layout. > If you are mounting two different LUNs, then you can just mkfs them > with ext4 or xfs and configure your gluster volume. As part of your > create command, you will need to specify the type of volume (replica, > distributed, striped, or some combination of the two). > I think this is what I have to do. thanks for help Wojciech > David > > On 1/30/12 5:05 AM, Wojciech Giel wrote: >> Hello, >> I will have two servers with fc storage. storage will be connected >> with two links to both servers >> ___________ ___________ >> | server 1 | | server 2 | >> -------------- -------------- >> | | | | >> -------------------------- >> | storage | >> -------------------------- >> on servers i will have multipathing enabled. storage has only one >> volume and this volume will be mounted under /mnt/data. I want to >> enable glusterfs. How should I do it: >> is it correct? >> >> gluster volume create transport tcp server1:/mnt/data server2:/mnt/data >> >> manuals don't shows examples with directly connected multi-home >> storage configurations. >> Could you give some advice , best practice >> thanks >> Wojciech >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gluster-users mailing list >> Gluster-users at gluster.org >> http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users -- wojciech.giel at cimr.cam.ac.uk JDRF/WT Diabetes and Inflammation Laboratory (DIL) Cambridge Institute for Medical Research (CIMR) University of Cambridge Wellcome Trust/MRC Building Addenbrooke's Hospital Hills Road Cambridge CB2 0XY Tel: 01223 763228
