Re: [Pacemaker] future of DLM

2013-03-01 Thread Lentes, Bernd
Michael wrote: > > you want to > > use OCFS2 without Pacemaker/corosync/cman. For example on SLE HA, that > > is not generally supported (only for use with RAC). > > > > Both GFS2 (always) and OCFS2 (when integrated with Pacemaker) require > >

Re: [Pacemaker] future of DLM

2013-03-01 Thread Michael Schwartzkopff
Am Freitag, 1. März 2013, 11:20:09 schrieb Lentes, Bernd: > Lars wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > > > no matter which of the two i choose ? > > > > > > > > The question is - choose for what? Depending on what you want to do, > > there is no alternative. > > > > > > > > Basically, the

Re: [Pacemaker] future of DLM

2013-03-01 Thread Lentes, Bernd
Lars wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > no matter which of the two i choose ? > > The question is - choose for what? Depending on what you want to do, > there is no alternative. > > Basically, the only use case for OCFS2's internal DLM is if > you want to > use OCFS2 without Pacemaker/corosync/cman. For exa

Re: [Pacemaker] future of DLM

2013-02-28 Thread Lars Marowsky-Bree
On 2013-02-28T23:21:00, "Lentes, Bernd" wrote: > Hi, > > no matter which of the two i choose ? The question is - choose for what? Depending on what you want to do, there is no alternative. Basically, the only use case for OCFS2's internal DLM is if you want to use OCFS2 without Pacemaker/coro

Re: [Pacemaker] future of DLM

2013-02-28 Thread Lentes, Bernd
Michael wrote: Am Donnerstag, 28. Februar 2013, 11:13:42 schrieb Lentes, Bernd: > Lars wrote: > > > > > > > Hi Bernd, > > > > > > > > > in the german IT newspaper "Linux-Magazin" 2/13 was an > > > > article, which says that the future of DLM (Distributed Lock > > Manager) is unclear. > > > > > I'd

Re: [Pacemaker] future of DLM

2013-02-28 Thread Lars Marowsky-Bree
On 2013-02-28T11:13:42, "Lentes, Bernd" wrote: > Hi Lars, > > thanks for claryfying that. So i can use DLM without any concern ? Yes. At least I'm not aware of any concerns to have. Regards, Lars -- Architect Storage/HA SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Ime

Re: [Pacemaker] future of DLM

2013-02-28 Thread Michael Schwartzkopff
Am Donnerstag, 28. Februar 2013, 11:13:42 schrieb Lentes, Bernd: > Lars wrote: > > > > > > > Hi Bernd, > > > > > > > > > in the german IT newspaper "Linux-Magazin" 2/13 was an > > > > article, which says that the future of DLM (Distributed Lock > > Manager) is unclear. > > > > > I'd like to crea

Re: [Pacemaker] future of DLM

2013-02-28 Thread Lentes, Bernd
Lars wrote: > > Hi Bernd, > > > in the german IT newspaper "Linux-Magazin" 2/13 was an > article, which says that the future of DLM (Distributed Lock > Manager) is unclear. > > I'd like to create a HA cluster with two nodes, accessing > concurrently one FC SAN with OCFS2. I need DLM. > > I wonder

Re: [Pacemaker] future of DLM

2013-02-26 Thread Lars Marowsky-Bree
On 2013-02-25T10:21:00, David Teigland wrote: > 1. linux/fs/dlm, used by gfs2 (and infrequently by ocfs2) > 2. linux/fs/ocfs2/dlm, used by ocfs2 > > I don't know which the article refers to or what's meant by "unclear". > I maintain 1 and would not call it unclear. You should use 2 with ocfs2;

Re: [Pacemaker] future of DLM

2013-02-26 Thread Lars Marowsky-Bree
On 2013-02-25T11:42:46, "Lentes, Bernd" wrote: Hi Bernd, > in the german IT newspaper "Linux-Magazin" 2/13 was an article, which says > that the future of DLM (Distributed Lock Manager) is unclear. > I'd like to create a HA cluster with two nodes, accessing concurrently one FC > SAN with OCFS

[Pacemaker] future of DLM

2013-02-25 Thread David Teigland
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 01:42:38PM +0100, Fabio M. Di Nitto wrote: > Hi, > > in the german IT newspaper "Linux-Magazin" 2/13 was an article, which > says that the future of DLM (Distributed Lock Manager) is unclear. > I'd like to create a HA cluster with two nodes, accessing concurrently > one FC

[Pacemaker] future of DLM

2013-02-25 Thread Lentes, Bernd
Hi, in the german IT newspaper "Linux-Magazin" 2/13 was an article, which says that the future of DLM (Distributed Lock Manager) is unclear. I'd like to create a HA cluster with two nodes, accessing concurrently one FC SAN with OCFS2. I need DLM. I wonder that the future is unclear because, afai