[Ocfs2-users] Mounting multiple clones

[Sunil Mushran]

That should work.

Kendall, Kim wrote:
> What we will be doing it creating EMC Clones of the older version of
> OCFS2 volumes, then mounting the clone volumes to another host that has
> a newer version of OCFS2. 
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Fasheh [mailto:mark.fasheh at oracle.com] 
> Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 5:10 PM
> To: Kendall, Kim
> Cc: ocfs2-users at oss.oracle.com
> Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] Mounting multiple clones
>
> On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 03:20:25PM -0700, Kendall, Kim wrote:
>   
>> Can an OCFS2 filesystem (originating on SuSE 9.3 running OCFS2 1.2.1)
>>     
> be
>   
>> mounted up and used on a Red Hat 4 (or Oracle Enterprise Linux) system
>> running a newer version of OCFS2???
>>     
>
> Simultaneously, or just migrating to another distro?
>
> The disk format is the same, so unmounting completely from one and
> mounting
> on another will work.
>
> If you want to mount simultaneously, you need to be using our cluster
> stack
> (the suse stuff doesn't exist on RHEL4/EL4) configured so that all nodes
> are
> in the cluster. Then, assuming the network protocol version is the same,
> you
> should be able to mount.
>
> 1.2.1 is pretty old and the protocol has changed recently so if you're
> using
> anything "modern" on your other nodes, something will refuse to mount.
> 	--Mark
>
> --
> Mark Fasheh
> Senior Software Developer, Oracle
> mark.fasheh at oracle.com 
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