[ale] OCFS2

Chris Ricker kaboom at oobleck.net
Mon Mar 20 14:18:48 EST 2006


On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Christopher Fowler wrote:

> 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.

What you really want then is drbd - basically "RAID 1 over network"

OCFS2 and GFS and their various closed-source competitors are more geared 
towards an active-active cluster (like Oracle RAC, for example) on 
physically shared storage, like a SAN

later,
chris



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