Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
Am Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:52:08 +0100 schrieb Michael Schwartzkopff: > Am Freitag, 19. März 2010 14:12:30 schrieb > Andreas.Ruetten at hansenet.com: >> Hi list, >> >> first of all please answer also to my email-address because I'm not >> subscribed to the ML. >> >> Here are my questions: >> >> I have to set up drbd 8.0.14 (Debian stable) in dual-primary mode. One >> node has to read and write while the other node only need read access. >> >> Do I need GFS or OCFS? > > Not really if you can be sure that the second node ONLY reads. > >> Or would a simple etx3 sufficient enough? > > Yes. Mount option "read-only" in the second node. > > But beware: If case of a failover your ALSO would have to remount your > directories to read-write on the second node to acchieve the high > availability. Hmm... i would not expect that ext3 (or any non cluster-filesystem) mounted on two primaries rw/ro behaves like expected. i wouldn't do it. - Thomas