This one time, at band camp, Amos Shapira wrote: >1. You CAN'T mount a non-cluster-aware file system even read-only on the >secondary node since the primary will change FS-structs under the feet of >the read-only node and cause it to crash (because non-cluster-aware >filesystems assume that they are the only ones who touch that partition). >2. You CAN mount read-write on multiple nodes if you use one of the >cluster-aware filesystems (GFS and OCFS are regularly mentioned, but if you >find any other cluster-aware file system then it sounds like it will work >too).
You're right, the example I was thinking of does not mount the filesystem on the secondary nodes until the primary goes down; once the FS is not mounted one of the secondaries takes over and mounts it read/write. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
