On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 09:54:40AM -0700, Au, Richard wrote: > I'm wondering if anyone has used LVM in a high-availibility cluster > where two servers are connected to shared storage (the physical > volumes). If so, which cluster solution did you use? Will there be > problems if the logical volumes are visable to both servers, even if > only one of them has them mounted? Thanks! Doing something like this w/o having servers participate in some sort of locking or journaling scheme is somewhat scary. You'd have to be pretty careful on how you access a shared physical storage system in this manner. I believe Sistina's GFS project might be more to your liking. IIRC, it's a clustered, journaling filesystem designed explicitly for your setup. It's a bonus that it is also GPL. Check it out at: http://www.sistina.com/products_gfs.htm. The latest GPL version of GFS seems to be 4.1.1 (as present on ftp://ftp.sistina.com/pub/GFS). I'm not sure, but I'm assuming from the info available on the website that GFS 5.0.1 is commercially available as well. Is Sistina doing something similar to TrollTech w/licensing GFS, then? Or are they just behind the ball as far as releasing the newer versions to the ftp site? (I'm assuming the former.) -- Chad Walstrom <chewie@wookimus.net> | a.k.a. ^chewie http://www.wookimus.net/ | s.k.a. gunnarr
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