[Ocfs-users] Strange "feature"

[Bluth, Gunnar]

On Friday 15 August 2003 09:42, Wim Coekaerts wrote:
> but they have different GUIDs
Yup.

> why would you mount the partitions on the same mountpoint in the first
> place
> shouldn't you have 1 device only with th failover stuff underneath
> or have 2 devices and 1 virtual device that gets the fall back
Honestly, I was not quite sure how the failover would work, and relied on another guys spadework, guessing he'd have cleared that failover would work 
this way...
We have two FC HBAs installed, both seeing the same storage unit. That's why 
they were seen twice. And ocfstool offers you to mount all 4 partitions it sees... 
GUI offers it, you try it...

> in theory you shoulndn't have to care/worry about config slots being
> there still, we don't have a tool to remove slots, but is should also
> not be needed, the guid is in the /etc/ocfs.conf file
> and when you mount it will use the slot that has that guid in there
As I mentioned, it's more a cosmetic problem. 
Anyway, since this is an Investment Bank, I am to clarify what would happen if 
we added nodes 31 and 32 to the RAC, who would, if I read the other thread right, occupy the "last" slots. Really ;-)

BTW: As far as we can say for now, OCFS as well as RAC work pretty well.

Regards, and thx for the help,
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