[Ocfs2-users] some beginner questions

[Ulf Zimmermann]

As Sunil already wrote: iSCSI, FC attached SAN, Firewire (not really recommended for production).


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexander Nagel [mailto:alexander at acwn.de]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 12:44 PM
> To: Ulf Zimmermann
> Cc: Ocfs2-users at oss.oracle.com
> Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] some beginner questions
> 
> 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
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> Alexander Nagel
> >> E-mail: alexander at acwn.de
> >> Homepage:
> >> http://www.acwn.de/
> >> http://www.standspur-kadaver.de/
> >>
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> --
> 
> Alexander Nagel
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