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

[Bret Baptist]

On Monday 25 August 2008 14:34:28 Bret Baptist wrote:
> On Monday 25 August 2008 14:19:01 Michael Moody wrote:
> > Bret,
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
>
> 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.
>

Just a note on Ubuntu 8.04.1 the kernel module for OCFS2 is 1.3.3 and the 
ocfs2-tools version is 1.3.9.


Bret.

>
> > Bret wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > Does anyone with some knowledge of the code have any input on this short
> > coming?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Thank you.

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