[Linux-cluster] Please correct me if I'm wrong, but...

Lon Hohberger lhh at redhat.com
Wed Aug 22 15:37:11 UTC 2007


On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 04:39:05PM -0400, Randy Brown wrote:
> Right.  That's the way I understood it to be.  Using ext3 would require 
> us to have to umount and remount the file systems to the each host after 
> the failure, though, correct?  In other words, would require 
> administrator interaction.  GFS would do this automatically without 
> impacting the users.

One would hope that the failover process handles mounting and
unmounting.  You do, however, need shared storage and suitable fencing
mechanisms in place.

-- Lon


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Lon Hohberger - Software Engineer - Red Hat, Inc.




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