[Ocfs2-users] some beginner questions

[Alexander Nagel]

Hi,

Am 14.07.2010 21:08, schrieb Ulf Zimmermann:
> OCFS2 requires shared storage. Is /dev/sdb a shared device?
thanks for your quick response, and that clarify the situation.
/dev/sdb is a single harddisk in the servers, it is not a shared 
storage. I thought that ocfs2 would work then like a single disk.
What type of storage must this shared device be?

thanks
Alexander

>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ocfs2-users-bounces at oss.oracle.com [mailto:ocfs2-users-
>> bounces at oss.oracle.com] On Behalf Of Alexander Nagel
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 12:03 PM
>> To: Ocfs2-users at oss.oracle.com
>> Subject: [Ocfs2-users] some beginner questions
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'am new to ocfs2 filesystem and I have some questions about it.
>>
>> I installed three server according to the user guide from
>> http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/dist/documentation/v1.4/ocfs2-1_4-
>> usersguide.pdf
>>
>> For every single server I have a working ocfs2 partition
>> /dev/sdb1 on /mnt/oc1 type ocfs2 (rw,_netdev,heartbeat=local)
>>
>> As I understand the ocfs2 system I can use now these partition as a
>> single data storage. But it doesn't work. When I create a file or
>> directory on the ocfs2 partition, it doesn't "appear" on the other
>> servers.
>>
>> SERVER01:
>> server01:~# echo "sdhfksjdhfskhskjgh">>  /mnt/oc1/testfile
>> server01:~# cat /mnt/oc1/testfile
>> sdhfksjdhfskhskjgh
>> server01:~# ls -lh /mnt/oc1/
>> insgesamt 0
>> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 3,9K 13. Jul 16:53 lost+found
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   19 14. Jul 20:48 testfile
>>
>>
>> SERVER02
>> server02:~# ls -lh /mnt/oc1/
>> insgesamt 0
>> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 3,9K 13. Jul 16:34 lost+found
>>
>>
>> server03 same result
>>
>> The config file is the same on all three servers. I made it and copied
>> it with the gui program on all three servers. So all server have the
>> absolutly same file.
>>
>> What did I miss? Can somebody give me a hint? Or did I misunderstand
>> the
>> ocfs2?
>>
>> thanks
>> Alexander
>>
>>
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>>
>> Alexander Nagel
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Alexander Nagel
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