[Linux-cluster] Multiple Roots
Christopher Hawkins
chawkins at bplinux.com
Mon Oct 30 03:48:36 UTC 2006
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> isplist at logicore.net
> Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 7:52 PM
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> Subject: [Linux-cluster] Multiple Roots
>
> This might be a long shot but... is there a way of taking a
> single GFS filesystem and creating multiple roots that only
> certain machines in the cluster will see?
>
> I'm almost sure I read somewhere that there is a way to do
> this. The reason is,
>
> I keep having to separate my storage up and I would much
> rather maintain one large storage array (contiguous) and dole
> out the space as needed to the various applications.
>
> That is an inherent part of fibre channel storage which is
> what I'm using so assume it can be done with GFS.
>
> If I didn't explain some part correctly, by all means, just ask.
>
> Thanks much for any input on this.
>
> Mike
>
I think you might want cdsl's (context dependent symlinks). Have you worked
with these before? Like:
Move /etc to /a_node_name/etc and replace /etc with a symlink:
ln -s /@hostname/etc /etc
Then every node will insert it's hostname into the path and go to the right
place for /etc.
Chris
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