Re: GFS2 or OCFS2 on SLES11 SP3

2013-07-12 Thread Michael MacIsaac
>> I intend to write up something if I can ever get it to work the same way twice without futzing with it. ... > Maybe Mike M. can make us a cookbook :) Doubtful :(( I'm in over my head trying to wrap up the latest version. "Global file systems on System z Linux" would be a good redpaper/whitepap

Re: GFS2 or OCFS2 on SLES11 SP3

2013-07-11 Thread David Boyes
OTOH, you don't have to migrate at all. As Leland points out, there IS a choice now. 8-) Leland, I'd say it's a religious issue. Both work fairly well for local clusters. If you have, or want to, standardized on RH, GFS gets a lot more love (via SNA's High Availability Option for RHEL on Syste

Re: GFS2 or OCFS2 on SLES11 SP3

2013-07-11 Thread Marcy Cortes
S2 or OCFS2 on SLES11 SP3 On 7/11/2013 2:41 PM, Marcy Cortes wrote: > Under z/VM right? > > OCFS2 is pretty simple if the amount of space you need fits on a minidisk. > > If you need cLVM, it's complicated. > The HAE guide helps some, but doesn't really put it into cook bo

Re: GFS2 or OCFS2 on SLES11 SP3

2013-07-11 Thread Leland Lucius
On 7/11/2013 2:41 PM, Marcy Cortes wrote: Under z/VM right? OCFS2 is pretty simple if the amount of space you need fits on a minidisk. If you need cLVM, it's complicated. The HAE guide helps some, but doesn't really put it into cook book format. It's like a layer cake and you have to each la

Re: GFS2 or OCFS2 on SLES11 SP3

2013-07-11 Thread Leland Lucius
On 7/11/2013 2:21 PM, Mark Post wrote: On 7/11/2013 at 03:07 PM, Leland Lucius wrote: Now that we have a choice, anyone have any pros/cons that they'd like to share? I would say the biggest thing to consider is this item from the SLE-ha-guide: Read-only GFS2 Support For easier migration from

Re: GFS2 or OCFS2 on SLES11 SP3

2013-07-11 Thread Marcy Cortes
ehalf Of Leland Lucius Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2013 12:08 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [LINUX-390] GFS2 or OCFS2 on SLES11 SP3 Now that we have a choice, anyone have any pros/cons that they'd like to share? My first attempt at using OCFS2 in an active/active DRDB-backed 4-node clu

Re: GFS2 or OCFS2 on SLES11 SP3

2013-07-11 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 7/11/2013 at 03:07 PM, Leland Lucius wrote: > Now that we have a choice, anyone have any pros/cons that they'd like to > share? I would say the biggest thing to consider is this item from the SLE-ha-guide: Read-only GFS2 Support For easier migration from GFS2 to OCFS2, you can mount your

GFS2 or OCFS2 on SLES11 SP3

2013-07-11 Thread Leland Lucius
Now that we have a choice, anyone have any pros/cons that they'd like to share? My first attempt at using OCFS2 in an active/active DRDB-backed 4-node cluster didn't pan out too well. But, I would have to say it wasn't necessarily OCFS2s fault...more like me struggling to get fencing working pro