[Users] which file system for shared disk?

Eduardo Ramos eduardo at freedominterface.org
Wed Jul 10 11:32:45 UTC 2013


Hi Piotr!

I've used OCFS2 out of oVirt, so I can't tell you specifically about VM 
environment, but I suggest you use OCFS2 in place of GFS2. It is simpler 
to implement, so less components to configure and it care about fencing 
for you.

On 07/10/2013 08:15 AM, Piotr Szubiakowski wrote:
> Hi,
> we are developing an application where would be great if multiple host 
> could have access to the same disk. I think that we can use features 
> like shared disk or direct LUN to attach the same storage to multiple 
> VM's. However to provide concurrent access to the resource, there 
> should be a cluster file system used. The most popular open source 
> cluster file systems are GFS2 and OCFS2. So my questions are:
>
> 1) Does anyone have share disk between VM's in oVirt? What fs did You 
> used?
> 2) Is it possible to use GFS2 on VM's that are running on oVirt? Does 
> anyone have run fencing mechanism with ovirt/libvirt?
>
> Many thanks,
> Piotr
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