Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
I would think, you could set up DRBD in primary/primary node with GFS or OCFS filesystem and export file luns from the cluster filesystem from both hosts. On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Christopher Chen <muffaleta at gmail.com>wrote: > I have yet to test this setup, but my thinking with regard to > active/active mode would be: > > While it feels better to run a machine in active/passive mode, I want > to set up mulitpath to handle the IO recovery. Because multipath has > to know about the paths beforehand to do a relatively quick failover, > the secondary host needs to export the LUNs before the failure > happens. Because DRBD in secondary mode prevents any read access, a > secondary machine can't export its LUNs, and multipath won't know > about the path. > > I suppose running in active/passive mode with scripts to automate the > iSCSI rescanning process could work, but it wouldn't be automated. > > Any thoughts? > > -- > Chris Chen <muffaleta at gmail.com> > "The fact that yours is better than anyone else's > is not a guarantee that it's any good." > -- Seen on a wall > _______________________________________________ > drbd-user mailing list > drbd-user at lists.linbit.com > http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user > -- Dwight Hubbard Owner Effective Automation Solutions Website: http://effectiveautomationsolutions.com Blog: http://computing.dwighthubbard.info Email: dwight at dwighthubbard.com Phone: (503) 616-4493 Redhat Certified Engineer - RHCE #804007137224095 VMware Certified Professional - VCP #18529 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.linbit.com/pipermail/drbd-user/attachments/20090608/3f8da6f2/attachment.htm>