[Ocfs2-users] Cluster setup
Sunil Mushran
Sunil.Mushran at oracle.com
Tue Oct 9 11:26:40 PDT 2007
Unsure what you mean. If the two servers mount the same
ocfs2 volume and export them via nfs, isn't that clustered nfs?
Luis Freitas wrote:
>
> Is there any cluster NFS solution out there? (Two NFS servers sharing
> the same filesystem with distributed locking and failover capability)
>
> Regards,
> Luis
>
> */Sunil Mushran <Sunil.Mushran at oracle.com>/* wrote:
>
> Appears what you are looking for is a mix of ocfs2 and nfs.
> The storage servers mount the shared disks and the reexport
> them via nfs to the remaining servers.
>
> ubuntu 6.06 is too old. If you are stuck on Ubuntu LTS, the
> next version 7.10 should have all you want.
>
> Pavel Georgiev wrote:
> > Hi List,
> >
> > I`m trying to build a cluster storage with commodity hardware in
> a way that
> > the all the data would be on > 1 server. It should have the meet
> the
> > following requirements:
> > 1) If one of the servers goes down, the cluster should continue
> to work with
> > rw access from all clients.
> > 2) Clients that mount the storage should not be part of cluster
> (not export
> > any disk storage) - I have few servers with huge disks that I
> want to store
> > data on (currently 2 servers, maybe more in the future) and I
> want to
> > storethe data only on them, the rest of the server should just
> mount and use
> > that storage with the ability to continue operation if one of
> the two storage
> > servers goes down.
> > 3) More servers should be able to join the cluster and at given
> point,
> > expanding the total size of the cluster, hopefully without
> rebuilding the
> > storage.
> > 4) Load balance is not a issue - all the load can go to one of
> the two storage
> > servers (although its better to be balanced), the main goal is
> to have
> > redundant storage
> >
> > Does ocfs2 meet these requirements? I read few howtos but none
> of them
> > mentioned my second requirement (only some of the servers to
> hold the data).
> >
> > Are there any specific steps to do to accomplish (2) and (3)?
> >
> > I`m using Ubuntu 6.06 on x86.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
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