On 2006-08-07, Heilige Gheist <hgheist@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It's obvious that I can always fall back to the inter-node heart-beat
> to ensure that only one node is mounting the filesystem.
> I'm just wondering if there's any facility or accepted practice to
> enforce it.
STONITH (Shoot The Other Node In The Head) trough smart power switches
or management adapters in the node.
SCSI reserve/release ... No idea how reliable this is on a SAN, but the
ServeRAID-version works great. http://www.linux-ha.org/ServeRAID
Export the volume group, or scsi device on the first node, before
importing/attaching it on the second .. Probably best to use together
with STONITH, in case the first node fails on unmounting/exporting.
BTW: I think XFS on IRIX had the owning node name in the file system header,
and only would allow this node to mount the fs. But I can't find this now...
Maybe it's gone, or maybe it was in xlv.. ?
-jf
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