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<font size="-1"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">To the
original poster - it sounds like you're essentially looking for a
cheap, home-brewed SAN solution. A while back I put together a quick
how-to on creating a redundant SAN solution using DRBD, iSCSI, and
OCFS2. You can view it here:<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.tedeology.com/2008/03/how-to-create-iscsi-san-using-heartbeat.html">http://www.tedeology.com/2008/03/how-to-create-iscsi-san-using-heartbeat.html</a><br>
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Hope that helps.<br>
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Mark Watts wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Wednesday 02 July 2008 14:26:03 Singh Raina, Ajeet wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Well I know this forum is related to DRBD but As I know My firm wont let
me purchase GFS I need another alternative.
I posted the same question in fedoraforum and one of the expert advise
me such:
You could install the iscsi-target, and export some of the space via
iscsi... that would work for the shared storage requirement.
Of course, it would be best to buy a real iscsi array.
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Can You please help me out setting the Shared Storage in the above
case.just need your advise.
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Using iSCSI as your shared storage would still require a clustered filesystem
to allow concurrent access to files from more than one node. (In theory you
could export /dev/drbd0 as an iSCSI device, but that doesn't get away from
iSCSI simply being a network block-device, not a filesystem).
If you simply want to have a filesystem mirrored to another system for use in
an Primary/Secondary scenario (typically using Heartbeat to provide
fail-over) then there is no need to use a clustered filesystem, since only
one node will be directly accessing the block-device at a time.
EXT3 will work just fine for this.
Mark.
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