[dm-devel] multipathing in debian lenny with sychronized data between 2 servers

Oliver Rojo orojo.horus at gmail.com
Mon Dec 6 19:14:50 UTC 2010


By the way, I'm using RAID-6 on my Data Storage.

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Oliver Rojo <orojo.horus at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes I've tested without multipathing.
>
> On Server A, it shows /dev/dm-0 as the fs to mount and /dev/dm-3 on Server
> B.
>
> Mounting it on /data and writing files into Server A, all those files
> written are not reflecting on Server B and vice versa. Do I need to use GFS2
> on this scenario?
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Christophe Varoqui <
> christophe.varoqui at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> > I'm having issues right now using HP Storageworks P2000 G3 MSA with Dual
>>
>> > Fiber Channel connected on each host (2 Servers). I've already configure
>>
>> > multipathing and mounted my multipath alias (/dev/mapper/data to /data)
>> > but everytime I put some data inside /data/ on Server 1, it doesn't
>> > reflect on Server2 and vice versa. Is there any tweak on this?
>> >
>> have you tested that without multipathing ?
>>
>> I understand you use a filesystem there ... A clustered fs like ocfs2 or
>> gfs2 would be necessary to synchronize your caches. If you are not using one
>> of those, the fs should be mounted on a single node at a time.
>>
>> Regards,
>> cvaroqui,
>> opensvc
>>
>
>
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