[ale] OCFS2

[Christopher Fowler]

On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 11:46 -0500, Chris Ricker wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> 
> > http://lwn.net/Articles/137278/
> > 
> > Could I use OCFS2 to cluster 2+ servers that are running MySQL so if one
> > goes down the other could simply jump in its place?
> > 
> > What I like about this idea is that instead of using a central RAID
> > cabinet that could die both boxes could simple share the same /opt/RUN
> > file system.  The backups could simply have mysql turned off an then a
> > script could turn it on.  
> 
> You should be able to. Note that OCFS2, unless things have changed, 
> requires physically shared storage - two hosts sharing the same LUNs from 
> a SAN or similar
> 

Oh.  I guess I was looking more of where 2 servers do RAID1 together.

server1:/dev/sda2 and server2:/dev/sda2 are mirrored so that either one
could have access to the files in case the other dies.