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From: Anton Ekermans <antone@true.co.za>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: md with shared disks
Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2014 10:30:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <545F2630.8090307@true.co.za> (raw)

Good day raiders,
I have a question on md that I cannot find (up to date) answer to.
We use SuperMicro server with 16 shared disks on a shared backplane 
between two motherboards, running up to date CentOS7.
If I create an array on one node, the other node can detect it. I put 
GFS2 on top of the array so both system can share the filesystem, but I 
want to know if md raid is safe to be used in this way with possibly 2 
active/active nodes changing the metadata at the same time. I've 
disabled raid-check cron job on one node so they don't both resync the 
drives weekly, but I suspect there's a lot more to it than that.

If it's not possible, then alternatively some advice on strategy to have 
a large active/active shared disk/filesystem would also be welcome.

Best regards

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Anton Ekermans
Technical/R&D
E-mail: antone true co za
Tel: 042 293 4168 Fax: 042 293 1851
Web: www.true.co.za <http://www.true.co.za>


             reply	other threads:[~2014-11-09  8:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-09  8:30 Anton Ekermans [this message]
2014-11-10 16:40 ` md with shared disks Ethan Wilson
2014-11-10 22:14 ` Stan Hoeppner
2014-11-13 13:14   ` Anton Ekermans
2014-11-13 20:56     ` Stan Hoeppner
2014-11-13 22:53       ` Ethan Wilson
2014-11-14  0:07         ` Stan Hoeppner

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