[Ocfs2-users] VM node won't talk to host

[Bret Baptist]

On Monday 25 August 2008 14:19:01 Michael Moody wrote:
> Bret,
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> Unless I'm misunderstanding you, and what you're saying, I assure you,
> that's not the case. I have a mounted ocfs2 volume running right now on
> five servers. Some are /dev/sdb1, others /dev/sdc1, and yet others
> /dev/sdm1.
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That is not what I am observing with OCFS2 1.3.9 on Ubuntu 8.04.1 server.  If 
I have different names for the devices then the cluster/lm doesn't even 
attempt to talk to the other cluster members.  It just mounts the already 
mounted file system.


Bret

> Bret wrote:
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> Turns out that you DO have to have the same device name on all nodes.  Even
> though the UUID is the same.  I pushed the network card for AOE on the host
> into the VM and used the same device names.  Like magic OCFS2 on the VM
> starts talking to the host.  That seems like a pretty serious limitation to
> me.
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> Does anyone with some knowledge of the code have any input on this short
> coming?
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> Thank you.

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