From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wim Coekaerts Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 21:13:38 -0700 Subject: [Ocfs2-devel] using ethernet instead of TCP In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20060409041337.GG21199@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com nope not yet :) On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 01:56:32PM +1000, James Harper wrote: > Has anyone considered having the option of using Ethernet instead of TCP > for inter-node communications? Such a feature would be useful for me as > I'd like to use the same Ethernet segment for inter-node communication > as I run AoE over (much less chance of a split brain), but I don't > currently run IP on that segment. Also, running ocfs2 as the root > filesystem would be easier (I've asked on -users if this is a good idea, > as discussion of that aspect probably isn't appropriate to -devel) as IP > wouldn't need to be started before bringing the root filesystem online. > > Obviously it's going to limit the cluster to the one lan segment, and > you get a lot of stuff 'for free' with TCP that would have to be written > for ocfs2 to use Ethernet (but I don't know how much the inter-node > stuff actually makes use of it), so it might be too much work for too > little gain... > > Thanks > > James > > _______________________________________________ > Ocfs2-devel mailing list > Ocfs2-devel at oss.oracle.com > http://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs2-devel