[DRBD-user] Newbie probs with 0.8x on FC5

Christophe Zwecker doc at zwecker.de
Wed Jul 19 15:18:19 CEST 2006

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yes youre right, ill need gfs , im installing that now.
I just didnt know that before :/

im just slowly getting the hang of this...

Diego Julian Remolina wrote:
>>> I did format /dev/sdb2 with ext3 on first machine.
>>
>> I format /dev/drbd0 with ext3, but im using internal metadata though.
> 
> Can you really have primary/primary with ext3 as the filesystem? I 
> though there would be problems since that is not a cluster file system. 
> Does DRBD take care of the kernel issues and allows two nodes to 
> read/write as active/active using ext3? or maybe you just mount 
> read/write in one node and read only in the second node but they are 
> both drbd primaries?
> 
> It was my understanding that you needed GFS or OCFS for such 
> configuration. Am i wrong?
> 
> Diego


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