[Linux-cluster] SEMI OT. Synchronizing jboss cache dir.

[Kaloyan Kovachev]

On Tue, 1 Sep 2009 14:48:13 +0200, ESGLinux wrote 
> 2009/9/1 Kaloyan Kovachev <kkovachev at varna.net> 
>  On Tue, 1 Sep 2009 14:21:47 +0200, ESGLinux wrote 
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> > You should use one iscsi lun shared by both cluster nodes. You can mount a 
> GFS filesystem without locking (lock=nolock) with (correct me if I am wrong) 
> the node not being part of a cluster, but only in one node at a time. 
> > You can mount a GFS filesystem created for a certain cluster without having 
> the filesystem configured as a resource, the only requisite is that the nodes 
> mounting the filesystem have to be part of that certain cluster. 
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> > If I have understand you ok, I need to create a cluster, for example, 
> MYCLUSTER, then create a resource of type GFS filesystem. After that I must 
> create 2 nodes in the cluster, access de iscsi lun from this nodes and finally 
> mount the gfs filesystem. 
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> > With these I can share this directory between the nodes without the risk of 
> file corruption? 
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> > Well, in the case I canґt use this approach, is there any way to do this? 
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> if you don't have shared storage, but you have local disks - you may use DRBD 
> instead of iSCSI. 
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> this looks interesting, any good manual about using DRBD? 
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There is a good documentation at http://www.drbd.org/ search for
primary-primary mode and make sure the replication channels is the same as for
the cluster communication to avoid split-brain and data corruption

>  About the cluster - you don't need to define any resources - 
> just have a cluster which is quorate to avoid data corruption while accessing 
> the GFS on DRBD 
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> ok, so I only need the cluster with the 2 nodes and the gfs filesystem
formated, for example like this: 
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> gfs_mkfs -p lock_dlm -t MyCLUSTER:mydata -j 8 /dev/sda1 
> When I have done this I can mount /dev/sda1 in both nodes as use it 
> [UTF-8?]isnВґt it? 

you should format and mount /dev/drbd0 which is made on top of /dev/sda1, not
/dev/sda1 itself

> Thanks, 
> ESG 
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> > Thanks for your time, 
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> > ESG 
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> > Regards, 
> > Juanra 
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