From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Martin Papik <mp6058@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux fs XFS <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: XFS filesystem claims to be mounted after a disconnect
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2014 08:41:40 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140605224140.GB4453@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5390C77E.4020003@gmail.com>
On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 10:39:42PM +0300, Martin Papik wrote:
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> Dear Dave,
>
> Thanks for your patience, and I'd like to ask a few more questions if
> I may.
>
> You mentioned that XFS is primarily for server type environment and
> specifically mentioned multipath access to storage devices. I had a
> setup in the past, blade center with a shared SCSI array where
> everything was duplicated. The blades had two connections one to each
> of a pair of switches, the switches had duplicated connections to two
> controllers (4 connections) and the controllers had access to the SCSI
> drives (a dozen). So in this scenario each blade had two SCSI drives
> showing for each volume on the array. So.....
>
> Does XFS bind to both devices?
No. Use dm-multipath to make them appear as a single block device
made up as a pair of redundant paths in primary/secondary failover
or active/active load balancing configurations. dm-multipath handles
failover between the two block devices on path failure
transparently.
XFS
|
dm-mp-0
/ \
sdc sdd
The mounted filesystem doesn't even know there are multiple paths in
this configuration, however the XFS UUID trapping behaviour avoids
this problem by preventing you from doing XFS operations directly on
/dev/sdc or /dev/sdd while the filesystem is mount on
/dev/dm-mp-0....
Cheers.
Dave.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-05 22:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-02 13:47 XFS filesystem claims to be mounted after a disconnect Martin Papik
2014-05-02 15:04 ` Eric Sandeen
2014-05-02 15:07 ` Eric Sandeen
2014-05-02 15:44 ` Mark Tinguely
2014-05-02 16:26 ` Martin Papik
2014-05-02 16:44 ` Martin Papik
2014-05-02 16:53 ` Eric Sandeen
2014-05-02 17:54 ` Martin Papik
2014-05-02 18:39 ` Eric Sandeen
2014-05-02 19:07 ` Martin Papik
2014-05-02 19:16 ` Eric Sandeen
2014-05-02 19:29 ` Martin Papik
2014-05-02 23:38 ` Dave Chinner
2014-05-02 23:35 ` Dave Chinner
2014-05-03 0:04 ` Martin Papik
2014-05-03 3:02 ` Dave Chinner
2014-06-02 11:22 ` Martin Papik
2014-06-02 23:41 ` Dave Chinner
2014-06-03 9:23 ` Martin Papik
2014-06-03 9:55 ` Stefan Ring
2014-06-03 10:48 ` Martin Papik
2014-06-03 21:28 ` Dave Chinner
2014-06-03 22:37 ` Martin Papik
2014-06-05 0:55 ` Dave Chinner
2014-06-05 1:38 ` Martin Papik
2014-06-05 19:39 ` Martin Papik
2014-06-05 22:41 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2014-06-06 0:47 ` Martin Papik
2014-06-03 22:58 ` Martin Papik
2014-06-05 0:08 ` Dave Chinner
2014-06-05 1:07 ` Martin Papik
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