[DRBD-user] Mount filesystem on both servers?

Marian Marinov mm at yuhu.biz
Thu Jan 22 12:42:16 CET 2009

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On Thursday 22 January 2009 13:35:42 Daniel wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> is there any way to mount the File-System on both nodes at the same
> time?
> What I want is that on node1 and node2 always have the same data on
> the disk.
>
> For example an node1 someone published new photos for his website in
> /var/www (mounted /dev/drbd1 to /var/www)
>
> on node2 the photos have to be available at the same time.
> It seems that i am able to mount only one node at the same time ;(
>
> Is there any way to do so?

Hello,
you first need to connect the DRBD device in primary/primary, then you need a 
cluster aware file system(for example OCFS2, GFS or GFS2) and then you can 
mount the clustered filesystem on both nodes.

Best regards
Marian Marinov



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