[Ocfs2-users] AoE ocfs2 local raid question

[Alexei_Roudnev]

1) You better use iSCSI for this export - it is proven to work with OCFSv2.

2) AoE can work but should be tested carefully.

3) It depends (can third server be the member or not); answer is negative
for iSCSI so expect problems for AoE too.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jaime Perea" <jaime.perea at gmail.com>
To: <ocfs2-users at oss.oracle.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 12:37 AM
Subject: [Ocfs2-users] AoE ocfs2 local raid question


> Hello,
>
> Just a small question.
>
> I have a small cluster (16 machines). An external machine is
> "exporting" a software raid-5 via the AoE protocol. The machines
> of the cluster mount the network device using ocfs2. In my case
> the network device is /dev/etherd/e11.1
>
> My question is, can that external machine be also a member of
> the cluster? and if so, can it use its local /dev/md0 instead of the
> network device when mounting the ocfs2 filesystem?, This can be
> useful for backups and/or exporting the ocfs2 filesystem outside
> of the cluster.
>
> I want to replace our user area which is now on a NFS filesystem
> with that ocfs2 setup, since it definitively goes faster.
>
> Thanks and regards
>
> -- 
>
>            Jaime D. Perea Duarte. <jaime at iaa dot es>
>              Linux registered user #10472
>
>            Dep. Astrofisica Extragalactica.
>            Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia (CSIC)
>            Apdo. 3004, 18080 Granada, Spain.
>
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