[Ocfs2-users] Query regarding OCFS2 and RHEL4 LVM

[Joel Becker]

On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 07:55:56AM +0200, Ionel GARDAIS wrote:
> As CLVM is to be configured along with the cluster-suite and you stated 
> "[...] that [CLVM] uses a different cluster technology than ocfs2 does, and 
> as such the two cluster stacks may conflict when a node goes down."
> What are the common solutions to this problem ?

You really have three options, none of them ideal.

1) Don't use two cluster stacks at the same time
2) Try really hard not to have nodes fail
3) Configure the failure timeouts so that you are pretty sure which
   stack will make the failure decision.

Joel

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