is it possible to mount a vinum-fs on 2 hosts?

Doug White dwhite at gumbysoft.com
Sun Dec 12 21:41:28 PST 2004


On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Michael Schuh wrote:

> I hav Host A   and    Host B  both are connected to an SAN
> through an QLA2200 Fibre-Channel (man isp).
> On the SAN are 14 Disks da0-da13 these Disks are configured
> w/ vinum to an RAID 10 Filesystem.
>
> Now i have the Problem i would make Host A to an PDC and
> HOST B to an BDC.
> To be redundant in an fail of the PDC (Host A) i would have access to the SAN
> from BDC (Host B).
>
> Now i Know the Problem of an already mounted Filesystem.
> I would mount the Filesystem on both Hosts, may i cannot update
> the Filesystemdescriptors from Host A on Host B.

FreeBSD does not currently ship with a cluster-capable filesystem, so this
configuration is not supported out of the box.  Unless someone offers a
cluster-capable filesystem as an addon product ... and I guess that's what
your fishing for :)

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