On 8/6/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey everybody,
>
> im trying to setup a HA cluster with:
>
> drbd 0.8 activ/activ
> ocfs2
> heartbeat v2
>
>
> I finally reached the point where I can concurrently write into a file
> on my ocfs2 partition shared via drbd. All good so fare but
> now I want to enable heartbeat:
>
> It took me quite some time to figure out that,
> heartbeat v2 is needed in order to use a activ/active drbd setup.
>
> I used the hb_gui and created a cloned drbddisk object, a cloned o2cb object 
> and
> a filesystem object for ocfs2.
>
> All 3 objects have the parameter:
> clone_max = 2
> clone_node_max = 1
>
> Ok drbd is started by heartbeat (I haven't found a way to tell heartbeat that 
> my drbd is supposed to be activ/activ).
> Next ocfs2 starts up and mounts configfs and all that stuff ...
> but when I try to "mount" ocfs2 via the heartbeat gui the icon is marked as 
> unmanaged.
> I guess that is because the ocfs2 from vanilla kernel (2.21.3) has no support 
> for a userspace heartbeat. :-(
>
> Here
> [http://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/ocfs2-devel/2006-February/000857.html]
> I found the patches for the ocfs2 userspace support, _but_ the patches are 
> for 2.6.15
> and where submitted 2006-February.
>
> So the only way I currently see to get a setup like mine working is with 
> SLE10 which comes with buildin support
> for userspace heartbeat ocfs2 modules ...

perhaps ask on the ocfs list(s) for either updated patches (or ideally
for it to be accepted into mainline :-)

i'd really not recommend running ocfs2 under heartbeat without those patches
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