[Linux-cluster] Mounting GFS and EXT3 filesystems on one GFS Cluster Node (RHEL 5.2)

[Juan Ramon Martin Blanco]

On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 6:08 PM, Shaun Mccullagh <
Shaun.Mccullagh at espritxb.nl> wrote:

> Hi,
>
Hi!

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> I'm presently setting up an 8 node GFS cluster.
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> All nodes bar one will mount two GFS files systems from a SAN.
>
> We will used lvm2-cluster on all nodes. All the GFS partitions will use
> LVM.
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> I've defined locking_type = 2 and locking_library =
> "liblvm2clusterlock.so" in /etc/lvm/lvm.conf on all nodes.
>
> My question is: Can I mount a VDISK from the SAN as a block device with
> an ext3 filesystem on it and mount GFS partitions at the same time?
> Given that LVM will be configured on this node with locking_type = 2 and
> locking_library = "liblvm2clusterlock.so"
>
> The filesystems will be mounted on unique mount points on the host.
>
> Can I also mount yet another VDISK on the same node this time ext3 on
> LVM?
>
Yes, why not? Just define the volume group you create with that VDISK as
non-clustered. All in all, the VDISK should be visible only to "the one"
node so the others won't notice there is some lvm stuff there.


>
> I would emphasize that only one node will mount the ext3 filesystems.
>
> I guess this is permissable but I wanted to check.
>
>
> Many thanks ...
>
You're welcome,

Juanra

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