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On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 16:36, Cahill, Ben M wrote: > Hi Arnaud, > > There is a known issue with the current support for OpenDLM. It will > likely cause problems if you mount more than one OpenGFS filesystem on a > given node (is this what you mean by "partition"?). We need to get some > static variables, used for recovery aspects, placed into an instance > structure (one instance for each mounted filesystem). I'm not *sure* > that this is the root cause of your problem, but it might be. I think so :-(( Well, Yes I used partition for filesystem, sorry. > Also, what does "thist" mean? (Sorry for my ignorance). Probably "this" typed too fast :-)) > BTW, realize that you're working in untested territory!! Stan just > recently wrote the recovery support for using OpenDLM, and we've never > tried it with more than two nodes. You are on the "bleeding edge", and > we thank you for it! ;-) Well, I have time for testing, and I am not in a hurry for everything, But I really need 2 filesystems mounted on 2 machines soon... > For more output from the OpenGFS OpenDLM lock module, you can load it > with: > > # modprobe opendlm debug=1 I tried, but it didn't help at all :-(( > That will generate a lot of output, but it may be helpful. I'm guessing > that the problem is in the locking, not the main filesystem code. Yes. > If you're eager to get going, and could tolerate a > single-point-of-failure, you could also try the memexp locking > (HOWTO-nopool). You can switch back and forth between memexp and > OpenDLM, if you'd like (requires unmount/mount). There is no on-disk > locking data (beyond the name of the default locking protocol, stored in > the superblock, which you can override in the mount command). These 2 filesystems are mounted on an HA Cluster, so I don't really want any SPOF. My idea is to have this cluster managing a CPU farm. Probably OpenMOSIX. Production estimated date: end of the year... Is ti realistic? Regards, Arnaud -- Arnaud Gauthier <agauthier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Realmedia ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com _______________________________________________ Opengfs-users mailing list Opengfs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opengfs-users