[Ocfs2-users] Cluster setup

[Sunil Mushran]

Unsure what you mean.  If the two servers mount the same
ocfs2 volume and export them via nfs, isn't that clustered nfs?

Luis Freitas wrote:
>
> Is there any cluster NFS solution out there? (Two NFS servers sharing 
> the same filesystem with distributed locking and failover capability)
>
> Regards,
> Luis
>
> */Sunil Mushran <Sunil.Mushran at oracle.com>/* wrote:
>
>     Appears what you are looking for is a mix of ocfs2 and nfs.
>     The storage servers mount the shared disks and the reexport
>     them via nfs to the remaining servers.
>
>     ubuntu 6.06 is too old. If you are stuck on Ubuntu LTS, the
>     next version 7.10 should have all you want.
>
>     Pavel Georgiev wrote:
>     > 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!
>     >
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