[Ocfs2-users] Cluster setup

[Pavel Georgiev]

Hi List,

I`m trying to build a cluster storage with commodity hardware in a way that 
the all the data would be on > 1 server. It should have the meet the 
following requirements:
1) If one of the servers goes down, the cluster should continue to work with 
rw access from all clients.
2) Clients that mount the storage should not be part of cluster (not export 
any disk storage) - I have few servers with huge disks that I want to store 
data on (currently 2 servers, maybe more in the future) and I want to 
storethe data only on them, the rest of the server should just mount and use 
that storage with the ability to continue operation if one of the two storage 
servers goes down.
3) More servers should be able to join the cluster and at given point, 
expanding the total size of the cluster, hopefully without rebuilding the 
storage.
4) Load balance is not a issue - all the load can go to one of the two storage 
servers (although its better to be balanced), the main goal is to have 
redundant storage 

Does ocfs2 meet these requirements? I read few howtos but none of them 
mentioned my second requirement (only some of the servers to hold the data).

Are there any specific steps to do to accomplish (2) and (3)? 

I`m  using Ubuntu 6.06 on x86.

Thanks!