Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
For all versions of DRBD up till 0.7.24 which i have used i can tell you that DRBD does NOT support mounting the same resource +rw on more than one node. Dunno for 0.8.* yet but i think it still doesn't. :-) Right now i would say you have a split brain setup. :-) Regards, M. On 2007.12.17, at 12:25, Rus Foster wrote: > Hi, > I've been reading a lot of documentation and managed to get myself > a bit confused so wondered if some kind sole would just point me in > the correct direction > > I'm trying to setup a two node cluster with the idea of if node1 > writes to /home the file can be accessed on node2 but I want both > nodes to have the ability to write to the device at the same time. > I've setup a drbd device and set allow-two-primaries; in /etc/ > drbd.conf. On both nodes I've run > > drbdadm primary all > > to set to primary > > I then mounted /home on both nodes (rw) and if I touch a file on > one node it doesn't appear on the other. > > As such can someone confirm > > Is this even possible with drbd handling the file locking for me or > do I have to look at setting up GFS to get this functionality. > Googling has chucked up a bit but I've ended up confused and going > around in circle > > Thanks > > Rus > _______________________________________________ > drbd-user mailing list > drbd-user at lists.linbit.com > http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user