Re: 2 questions

[Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 01:55, Simon Matter wrote:

> 
> This is what I meant:
> 
> +----------+      +----------+      +----------+
> | Server0  |      | Server1  |      | Server2  |
> |          |      |          |      |          |
> |          |      |          |      |          |
> |  /nbd0   |      |  /nbd1   |      |  /nbd2   |
> |     ^    |      |     ^    |      |     ^    |
> +-----|----+      +-----|----+      +-----|----+
>       |                 |                 |
>       |                 |                 |
>       |                 |                 |
>       |                 \-------\         |
>       |                         |         |
>       |                         |         |
>       |                         |         |
>       |     +-------------------|--+      |
>       |     |       Big Iron    |  |      |
>       |     |                   |  |      |
>       |     |                   |  |      |
>       |     |                   |  |      |
>       \----------->/dev/nbd0    |  |      |
>             |      /dev/nbd1 <-/   |      |
>             |      /dev/nbd2 <-----------/
>             |                      |
>             |   /dev/md0:RAID5 {   |
>             |      /dev/nbd0       |
>             |      /dev/nbd1       |
>             |      /dev/nbd2 }     |
>             |                      |
>             |                      |
>             |   XFS on /dev/md0    |
>             |                      |
>             +----------------------+
> 
> Is _this_ dangerous or did you get me wrong? IIRC it has worked perfect
> and I didn't see any corruption.
> 
> -Simon
> 


That should work just fine, I was interpreting things differently,
mounts on all the nodes, not just on one node. I was wading through
12 days of email backlog at the time.

Steve

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