[Ocfs2-users] OCFS2 systems not talking

[Dr J Pelan]

On Sun, 23 Dec 2007, Michael Brennen wrote:

> I have installed the OSS ocfs2 packages for Centos5; see below for 
> details. I've very carefully gone over everything, googled every 
> possibility I can think of, and I still cannot get two test machines to 
> share a drive, /dev/hdc. 

OCFS2 is a *filesystem* - it does not allow you to 'share a drive'.

For OCFS2 to work, there must be an existing shared block device (e.g. 
FC/iSCSI SAN, shared SCSI bus, DRBD 8 device) accessible by the nodes. 
OCFS2 will not give you this but it will allow you to share a filesystem 
that resides on it once you do.

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John P.