[Linux-cluster] How do I get reiserfs and xfs filesystem options in system-config-cluster ?

[jayesh.shinde]

Thanks Ben, Rajagopal & Rafa  for your guidance.

Regards
Jayesh Shinde


On 12/22/2010 11:28 PM, Ben Turner wrote:
> As far as I know RHEL 6 doesn't include system-config-cluster anymore.  I suggest you use the luci interface to configure this.  When creating a new service in luci you can choose the filesystem resource, this resource handles 9 different filesystems including reiser and XFS as well an an autodetect option.  You can also manually edit the cluster.conf file to make these changes.
>
> You can use XFS with cluster, the point that others were trying to make is that XFS is not a shared filesystem like GFS and can only be mounted on one node at a time.
>
> -Ben
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> Hi :)
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 8:27 AM, jayesh.shinde
>> <jayesh.shinde at netcore.co.in>  wrote:
>>> Hi Rajagopal
>>>
>>> I am not clear fully. I will use RHEL 6 . I want some more
>>> clarification on
>>> below points
>>>
>>> 1) You mean to say I can't use XFS with cluster ? OR there is no
>>> option for
>>> XFS with system-config-cluster ?
>>
>> Depends on the type of cluster:
>> - HA cluster: no problem as long as it's active/passive. That is:
>> one server mounts the FS and the other is on standby. If server 1
>> fails, it releases the FS and server2 mounts it.
>> - shared/clustered filesystem: you'd have to go with CXFS (get in
>> touch with SGI). That is: both servers mount the filesystem at the
>> same time.
>>
>>
>>> 2) If I edited the cluster.conf file manually for "xfs" will the
>>> cluster
>>> server work well ?
>>>
>>> 3) what is work around solution ?
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Jayesh Shinde
>>>
>>> On 12/22/2010 12:06 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote:
>>>> Greetings,
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 4:53 AM, jayesh.shinde
>>>> <jayesh.shinde at netcore.co.in>  wrote:
>>>>> Hello ,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am configuring redhat cluster suite with RHEL 5.4 , 32 bit
>>>>> architecture
>>>>> I have my one SAN partition with reiserfs and xfs filesystem.
>>>> To the best of my knowledge, XFS support has just started on RHEL6.
>>>>
>>>> I am not sure that ReiserFS was ever supported by Redhat.
>>>>
>>>> If you are trying to use those filesystems in the cluster, I don't
>>>> think they are cluster aware.
>>>>
>>>> YMMV.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Rajagopal
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> Rafa
>>
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