Fury wrote: > I've racked my brain on this one, so hopefully someone will be of some help. > > I'm trying to set up two servers which share a drive and do not have a > Single Point of Failure. They are on a local network with each other. > The best solution would be to have /dev/sda1 on one server mirrored > with /dev/sda1 on the second server. > ... > A second solution was to use GFS/GNBD. I can export each drive to the > other server, and do RAID 1 (on both servers) between the local > /dev/sda1 and the remote gnbd device. I then format the raid device > with GFS so both servers can mount it. > > Surprisingly, this last system works. Both systems can mount the > drive and read-write to it. However, if either server in this > configuration drops dead, the other server cannot deal with the dead > gnbd device, and the raid device and mount point are no longer usable. > I'm sure there are numerous other problems with this setup, also. > > So I'm looking for ideas. With two servers, how can I mirror a drive > in real-time, and allow for failover? You might want to use something more like iSCSI + RAID: http://linux-iscsi.sourceforge.net/ --Matt _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
