[Ocfs2-users] re: different availability requirements for multiple ocfs2 volumes?

[Sunil Mushran]

Peter Santos wrote:
> 	The backup volume availability requirements shouldn't be so strict because if the volume is not available, I
> 	would just rather have my RMAN backup fail, and not have the machine reboot
> 	.. just because of this volume alone.
>
> 	My question is, is it possible to configure the "backup' volume is such a way that the o2cb service will not
> 	reboot the machine in case that volume has problems?  Maybe disabling the hearbeat for that volume ?
If you want the volume to be clustered, we would require a heartbeat.
But I do get your point and we are looking at avenues of reducing
the disk hb overhead by making it global, perhaps. But that's for 1.4.

For now, see if that volume has to be clustered. If not, maybe use ext3.

On a side note, we recently checked into mainline local mount functionality
that will allow users to mount ocfs2 volumes locally without any cluster
overhead.