Re: md on shared storage

Steven Dake (sdake@mvista.com)
Wed, 13 Nov 2002 10:56:09 -0700


Waiting to start a failed-over node doesn't work for booting raid 1
mds... Since autostart is required.

Joel Becker wrote:

>On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 10:17:08AM -0700, Steven Dake wrote:
>
>
>>Another method is to lock an md array to a specific host. This method
>>requires no DLM (since there is no shared write to the same array
>>capability).
>>
>>
>
> But the entire point is to share access. Otherwise it is pretty
>uninteresting.
> If you want a failover setup, there is no need for md locking
>either. Simply have the backup node not start the md until the failover
>happens.
>
>Joel
>
>
>

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