Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On Wednesday 02 July 2008 14:26:03 Singh Raina, Ajeet wrote: > 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. > *************** > > Can You please help me out setting the Shared Storage in the above > case.just need your advise. 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. -- Mark Watts BSc RHCE MBCS Senior Systems Engineer QinetiQ Applied Technologies GPG Key: http://www.linux-corner.info/mwatts.gpg -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.linbit.com/pipermail/drbd-user/attachments/20080702/48cfb8c4/attachment.pgp>