Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
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: http://www.tedeology.com/2008/03/how-to-create-iscsi-san-using-heartbeat.html Hope that helps. *Joe Koenig* *Creative Anvil, Inc.* *Phone: *314.692.0338 1346 Baur Blvd. Olivette, MO 63132 joe at creativeanvil.com http://www.creativeanvil.com Mark Watts wrote: > 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. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > drbd-user mailing list > drbd-user at lists.linbit.com > http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.linbit.com/pipermail/drbd-user/attachments/20080702/3bf76dda/attachment.htm>