Re: [Xen-users] EVMS or GFS

[Karsten Nielsen <karsten-xen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Lars Roland wrote:
> On 5/25/06, Karsten Nielsen <karsten-xen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi list.
> >
> > I have the setup illustrated below. The app (application xen) servers
> > will have live migration between them, and at any given time there can
> > be added new app servers and more storage on the same storage server. I
> > have exported the block devices from the shared storage with nbd.
> >
> > ---------  ---------
> > | app 1 |  | app 2 |
> > ---------  ---------
> >      \        /
> >       \      /
> >        \    /
> >    ----------------
> >   | shared storage |
> >    ----------------
> >
> > I have a lot of troble to get the GFS to work on xenified kernel 2.6.16.
> > Whereas I have no problem patching the xenified kernel with the evms
> > patches. I haven't tryed booting the kernel yet but it compiled fine.
> Regarding patching you might want to go with ocfs2 instead of GFS
> since it is already in kernel 2.6.16.
I have tried that at it worked fine, but the problem is that apt-get in 
debian uses mmap and ocfs2 does not support that. So I am affried that 
that is not an option.
- Karsten

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