[Ocfs2-users] ocfs2 on VMware workstation

[Tapas Mallick]

Hi,

I give up the idea to use share disk in VMware
Workstation and finally use iSCSI as a shared block
device for OCFS2. It works fine for me and Now I am
able to format(though from CLI only, as the share disk
is not visible in ocfs2console unless I format the
disk by mkfs.ocfs2) and mount in both of my guest RHEL
systems.

Thanks a lot for all the suggestion and advice.

Thanks and Regards,
Tapas Mallick
fedora4all at yahoo.com


--- David Coulson <david at davidcoulson.net> wrote:

> You can use a SAN to share the disk, or you can use
> DRBD to mirror two 
> local disks.
> 
> If you want to share local disk, you need to figure
> out a way to share 
> it at the block level.
> 
> Tapas Mallick wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > is OCFS2 is only build for SAN ? Can't we use
> local
> > disk to be shared by two or more system as
> clustered
> > file system?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Tapas Mallick
> > fedora4all at yahoo.com
> >
> >
> >
> > --- David Coulson <david at davidcoulson.net> wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> Does VMware workstation support shared disks?
> Maybe,
> >> maybe not - You 
> >> will have to check.
> >>
> >> OCFS does NOT export the disk or filesystem from
> one
> >> machine to the other.
> >>
> >> Tapas Mallick wrote:
> >>     
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I thought in the second system the formatted
> disk
> >>> should come as a physical disk(As we found in
> the
> >>> iSCSI initiator). How do I configure my second
> >>>       
> >> system
> >>     
> >>> to view the formatted disk ?
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>> Tapas Mallick
> >>> fedora4all at yahoo.com
> >>>
> >>>       
> >
> >
> >
> >       
> >   
>