[Pacemaker] Accessing GFS2 SAN drive, without Pacemaker?

[Andrew Beekhof]

On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Charles DeVoe <scarecrow_57 at yahoo.com>wrote:

> We have a three node cluster that we are going to run dedicated services
> on each box.  That is one will be used for analysis, one for data
> collection, one for mysql.   We need to be able to access data on a shared
> SAN drive using iSCSI.  2 nodes are running Fedora 16 and 1 node on Fedora
> 14.  The SAN is formatted using the GFS2 file system.
>
> Can we run just cman to control the access or do we need pacemaker as well?


You can use GFS2 without a resource manager like Pacemaker but you would
need manual recovery for most failure conditions.


>   Also, if we need pacemaker does the SAN volume need to be added as a
> resource?


Not required, but there might be advantages.


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