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Greetings,
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I need to lighten up some confusements in my head. Most info I could find on "drbd with gfs" on google is about having both nodes read / write, but what about this configuration? (it is a draft for a simple cluster)
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Host A (Primary node):
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export /dev/nbX block device with gnbd to a few GFS nodes
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Host B (secondary node):
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Contains the mirrored disk, not even mounted. Just sitting there hapily mirrroring data.
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If Host A fails, Host B become primary, and exports the disk via gnbd on its turn.
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Will this work? I think it would because the /dev/nbX device is a "normal" block device, so gnbd should not see the difference. However, I'm not the expert in this area so I could be wrong.
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Thanks in advance
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Regards,
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Filip Sergeys
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