[Ocfs2-users] OCFS2 systems not talking

[Michael Brennen]

On Sun, 23 Dec 2007, Dr J Pelan wrote:

> 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.

And with this all the pieces suddenly snapped into place.  In 
retrospect it seems all too embarassingly clear.  I now have three 
nodes over iscsi working.  Thanks... :)

    -- Michael