[Linux-HA] OCFS2 and Heartbeat2

[Neil Streeter]

Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
> from the SUSE kernel tree to make this work - otherwise OCFS2 won't
> accept the membership events from user-space (heartbeat).
>
> The ocfs2-* patch series is probably all required, or simply use SLES10
> directly as your base and all will be well ;-)
>
> (We're still working with Oracle to merge them upstream.)
>
>
> Sincerely,
>     Lars Marowsky-Brée
>
>   
> In addition to what Robert said, you'll need to pull various patches
I've been working with heartbeat on sles 10 -- and particularly with 
ocfs2. I've been having a fair amount of difficulty configuring, but am 
working through that. Is it absolutely necessary for the ocfs2 resource 
to be a clone? I would like to use ocfs2 not so much because I need to 
mount SAN storage on multiple nodes (I don't; though that could be handy 
for backups) -- but mostly because I'd like to avoid the corruption that 
would ensue if something goes wrong and my filesystem is not cluster 
aware. Is it possible to create a native filesystem resource for ocfs2 
that behaves just as a reiserfs resource would behave? That is to 
say....... not a clone, just a 'regular' member of a 'group' that is 
active on only one node at a time.

-- or -- am I just being overly paranoid about data corruption...

Thanks,
Neil