[Linux-cluster] question about creating partitions and gfs
Jason
jason at monsterjam.org
Wed May 10 13:07:58 UTC 2006
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 08:30:58AM -0400, Kovacs, Corey J. wrote:
> Jason, couple of questions.... (And I assume you are working with
> RHEL3+GFS6.0x)
[root at tf1 cluster]# cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 (Taroon Update 7)
[root at tf1 cluster]#
[root at tf1 cluster]# rpm -qa | grep -i gfs
GFS-modules-smp-6.0.2.30-0
GFS-devel-6.0.2.30-0
GFS-debuginfo-6.0.2.30-0
GFS-6.0.2.30-0
GFS-modules-6.0.2.30-0
[root at tf1 cluster]#
>
>
> 1. Are you actually using raw devices? if so, why?
not intentionally.. ;)
> 2. Does the device /dev/raw/raw64 actually exist on tf2?
[root at tf2 cluster]# !ls
ls -al /dev/raw/raw64
crw-rw---- 1 root disk 162, 64 Jun 24 2004 /dev/raw/raw64
[root at tf2 cluster]#
[root at tf1 cluster]# !ls
ls -al /dev/raw/raw64
crw-rw---- 1 root disk 162, 64 Jun 24 2004 /dev/raw/raw64
[root at tf1 cluster]#
so theyre both there..
>
>
> GFS does not use raw devices for anything. The standard Redhat Cluster suite
> does, but not GFS. GFS uses "storage pools". Also, if memory servs me right,
> later versions of GFS for RHEL3 need to be told what pools to use in the
> "/etc/sysconfig/gfs" config file. Used to be that GFS just did a scan and
> "found" the pools, but no longer I believe.
>
in /etc/sysconfig/gfs on both boxes, I have
CCS_ARCHIVE="/dev/sdb1" (everything else is commented out)
regards,
Jason
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