Michael,<br><br> You might be able to route IP over your FC network. I know that some unixes do this, but I am not sure on how to do it on Linux.<br><br>Regards,<br>Luis<br><br><b><i>Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 08:47:37AM -0800, Michael M. wrote:<br>> As we have fiber channel, and we have fiber connections, sometimes direct<br>> p-to-p, where we could run it into our fiber channel switch, and share a disk<br>> array over hundreds of feet, to hundreds of miles, but where servers wouldn’t<br>> be able to talk via fast enough network connection, does (or will) ocfs2<br>> support a mode where there is no network connection needed, and all voting, and<br>> cluster “talking” can be done to the block device itself, including the<br>> heartbeat?<br><br>Ocfs (v1) used to do that,
but we moved away from it for Ocfs2 because it<br>quickly became unusably slow once all the additional locking traffic for<br>general purpose usage was added.<br> --Mark<br><br>--<br>Mark Fasheh<br>Principal Software Developer, Oracle<br>mark.fasheh@oracle.com<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Ocfs2-users mailing list<br>Ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com<br>http://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs2-users<br></blockquote><br><p> 
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