Hi, yes, you need to go with the Cluster Stuff... Regarding your Setup, i got the best experience with drbd + gfs + iscsi export. GNBD was not as Stable than i expected. Overall Performance was even worse, too compared with iSCSI. Greetings Juergen On 03/27/2010 05:39 PM, Raffaele Camarda wrote: > Hi all, > > Where i want to arrive: > > 1) having two storage server replicating partition with DRBD > 2) exporting via GNBD from the primary server the drbd with GFS2 > 3) inporting the GNBD on some nodes and mount it with GFS2 > > Assuming no logical error are done in the last points logic this is the > situation: > > Server 1: LogVol09, DRDB configured as /dev/drbd0 replicated to Server 2. > DRBD seems to work perfect as cat /proc/drbd > Server 2: LogVol09, Secondary for /dev/drbd, cat /proc/drbd is ok > > What i thought to do was to export via GNBD the /dev/drbd0 to import it on a > couple of nodes. Using GFS2 as FS for concurrent usage. > > I got to format the GFS2 FS on the Server 1 drbd0 device. But was unable to > mount it because gfs_controld wasn't accepting connections, i discovered > that cman manage gfs_controld. In any case i started it manually and > discover that it try to use ccsd daemon which i have not installed. > > Ok, i do not need to mount it locally so i started configuring GNBD, started > manualli the server end stated the export command...again the cman/ccsd > problem: > > gnbd_clusterd: ERROR cannot join cman > > Now, what i'm asking: am i forced to use all the cluster stuff cman, > ccsd...fence...with this configuration? I would like only to use the tools i > need: DRDB, GNBD and GFS2 without cluster facilities. > > Thanks > Raffaele > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos