So, how come file system consistency is maintained if all the nodes are participating in metadata transactions?
Thanks & Regards, Shrikant Tapse. -----Original Message----- From: Scott Kaiser Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 10:52 PM To: Amit Chaurasia; Amit Chaurasia Cc: Shrikant Tapse; veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-vx] Reg: CFS Primary/secondary on Master Also note that if using CFS 5.0 & disklayout 7 (the default for a new file system), selecting the CFS primary is essentially irrelevent, as all cluster nodes participate in metadata transactions. The CLI to select is kept primarily for backward compatability. Scott > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Amit Chaurasia > Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 11:12 PM > To: Amit Chaurasia > Cc: Shrikant Tapse; veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu > Subject: Re: [Veritas-vx] Reg: CFS Primary/secondary on Master > > So the straight answer to your question is : > > 1) Find the master node in your cluster. > > vxclustadm -c mode > > 2) Assuming node1 is the master then, set that node as > primary for vol1 fsclustadm setprimary vol1. (This should be > run on the node that you want to set as primary. In this case node1) > > Please note that this will set node1 as primary for only > vol1. For different volumes you can set different nodes as primary. > > Hope this helps even better. > > -Amit > > > > Amit Chaurasia wrote: > > The node that is master or slave can be found out by the command > > vxdctl -c mode. To find the primary node after the a volume > is mounted > > the command is fsclustadm. > > For Eg: I have node1,node2 and node3 and a vol1 is mounted > across all > > the nodes. There will be 1 node which will be primary. To find out > > which one, the command is fsclustadm. > > > > Hope this helps. > > > > -Amit > > > > > > Shrikant Tapse wrote: > > > >> Hi All, > >> > >> > >> > >> I am quite new to the VxFS. > >> > >> > >> > >> Does anyone know what is mean by setting master as CFS primary or > >> secondary? > >> > >> > >> > >> Would you please provide me some steps to setup such configuration? > >> > >> > >> > >> Kindly update me. > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> Thanks & Regards, > >> > >> Shrikant Tapse. > >> > >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> --- > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Veritas-vx maillist - Veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu > >> http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-vx > >> > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Veritas-vx maillist - Veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu > > http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-vx > > > > _______________________________________________ > Veritas-vx maillist - Veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu > http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-vx > _______________________________________________ Veritas-vx maillist - Veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-vx