[Pacemaker] Storage Locking To Prevent Split Brain

[David Morton]

Nobody have any words of wisdom gained from years of experience ? I'm
looking at sfex resources configured on a small logical volume in the same
volume group as the main data set at present.

>From the documentation it reads as this is the correct mechanism for the
job ?

Dave

On 18 October 2012 08:40, David Morton <davidmorton78 at gmail.com> wrote:

> We're changing our SAN shortly and I'm putting together the procedure /
> config now for the shared storage. This will be based on XFS on top of
> clustered LVM2 via Pacemaker.
>
> I've implemented the exclusive=yes directive on the LVM resources (volume
> groups) but I am still able to mount on both cluster nodes (2 node cluster)
> in my testing environment. I would have thought that this directive would
> prevent multiple mounting / VG activation given that even when there are no
> cluster comms (this is how i create the split brain, and reboot both nodes)
> the storage is available to both nodes ?
>
> What is the recommended way of guaranteeing storage exclusiveness in this
> (albeit unlikely) situation where both nodes think they are running by
> themselves ? I've looked at sdb and sfex but have previously been steered
> away from them.
>
> Dave
>
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