From: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@oracle.com>
To: "Patrick J. LoPresti" <lopresti@gmail.com>
Cc: ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] Combining OCFS2 with Linux software RAID-0?
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:40:43 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B214EBB.2060407@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <23986fd90912091503r3c671448va4d8637edfab472b@mail.gmail.com>
It should work. All ocfs2 needs is a stable shared storage that
is consistent across all nodes all the time.
Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
> Is it possible to run an OCFS2 file system on top of Linux software RAID?
>
> Here is my situation. I have four identical disk chassis that perform
> hardware RAID internally. Each chassis has a pair of fiber channel
> ports, and I can assign the same LUN to both ports. I want to connect
> all of these chassis to two Linux systems. I want the two Linux
> systems to share a file system that is striped across all four chassis
> for performance.
>
> I know I can use software RAID (mdadm) to do RAID-0 striping across
> the four chassis on a single machine; I have tried this, it works
> fine, and the performance is tremendous. I also know I can use OCFS2
> to create a single filesystem on a single chassis that is shared
> between my two Linux systems. What I want is to combine these two
> things.
>
> Suse's documentation
> (http://www.novell.com/documentation/sles11/stor_admin/?page=/documentation/sles11/stor_admin/data/raidyast.html)
> says:
>
> "IMPORTANT:Software RAID is not supported underneath clustered file
> systems such as OCFS2, because RAID does not support concurrent
> activation. If you want RAID for OCFS2, you need the RAID to be
> handled by the storage subsystem."
>
> Because my disk chassis already perform hardware RAID-5, I only need
> Linux to do the striping (RAID-0) in software. So for me, there is no
> issue about "which node should rebuild the RAID" etc. I understand
> that Linux md stores meta-data on the partitions and is not cluster
> aware, but will this create problems for OCFS2 even if it is just RAID
> 0?
>
> Has anybody tried something like this? Are there alternative RAID-0
> solutions for Linux that would be expected to work?
>
> Thank you.
>
> - Pat
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-10 19:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-09 23:03 Combining OCFS2 with Linux software RAID-0? Patrick J. LoPresti
2009-12-10 1:37 ` Neil Brown
2009-12-11 7:15 ` Luca Berra
2009-12-11 7:30 ` Wolfgang Denk
2009-12-11 13:37 ` Luca Berra
2009-12-11 7:33 ` Neil Brown
2009-12-10 19:40 ` Sunil Mushran [this message]
2009-12-10 21:45 ` [Ocfs2-users] " Joel Becker
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