[Ocfs2-users] ddraid?

shashi shashi.boddula at oracle.com
Wed Jan 4 06:27:39 CST 2006


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> Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 13:11:10 +0100
> From: Juraj Bednar <jooray at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Ocfs2-users] ddraid?
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> Hello,
> 
> 
>   has anyone (except of author) tried ocfs2 with
> http://sourceware.org/cluster/ddraid/?
> 
>   I would really like to build a fully redundant storage without using a 
> SAN (with two PCs). But on the block device level (over network, using 
> raid), there are just so many things, that can go wrong with the 
> implementation, I'm not quite sure what to use.
> 
>   I've seen some reports of using GFS + GNBD + raid1 (fr1), but I 
> believe this will fail on the first split brain occasion.
> 
>   I would really like to have some good distributed filesystem solution, 
> that just works under Linux, in fact, I miss this for years. OCFS2 is a 
> good start (also with GFS), but the requirement of shared storage is 
> quite a problem (consider you want the cluster to span two independent 
> datacenters, ...).
> 
>   Any ideas are helpful.

Think about Lustre filesystem .

> 
>   Thanks for the link to PVFS2, but I didn't find out, if it can be 
> redundant yet.
> 
>    Juraj.
> 
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