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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hello all,</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I have looked through Google and list archives, however I did not find a detailed post on the following:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I have two replica servers (hardware, OS, main config. Obviously the IPs are different)</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Centos5</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Drbd 8</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I want:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">1. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">To have the partitions I will use for storage, be live replicated to both servers (This is completed. I use drbd on each partition on server 1 and share it via drbd to server 2. The filter statement on /etc/drbd.conf is corect).</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">2. </FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">To use /dev/drbd0 and /dev/drbd1 as members of vg0 (Completed. VG0 is created to the full extend of the partitions)</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">3. </FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">To mount at the same time the same vg to both servers (Completed only manually. “primary/primary” configuration and “vgchange –a y vg0” on both servers and then “mnt /dev/vg0/vg0 /mnt”)</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">4. </FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Then when I write file “ABC” on server 1, I need server 2 to realize (with “ls”) that file “ABC” is being written (or at least was written) WITHOUT having to un-mount and mount again.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Anyone solved this (even with clvmd and gfs)? </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">If yes I would really appreciate some detailed explanations how it is solved.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Sincerely,</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Theophanis Kontogiannis</FONT></SPAN></P>
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