[Users] which file system for shared disk?

Piotr Szubiakowski piotr.szubiakowski at nask.pl
Wed Jul 10 12:16:48 UTC 2013


Hi Eduardo,
yes fencing method used in OCFS2 is probably better for vitalized 
environments. Thanks for advice!

Many thanks,
Piotr

W dniu 10.07.2013 13:32, Eduardo Ramos pisze:
> 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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