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From: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
To: Steven Dake <sdake@mvista.com>
Cc: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>,
	Brian Jackson <brian-kernel-list@mdrx.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: md on shared storage
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 09:25:30 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021113172530.GF806@nic1-pc.us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3DD28914.3050107@mvista.com>

On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 10:17:08AM -0700, Steven Dake wrote:
> Another method is to lock an md array to a specific host.  This method 
> requires no DLM (since there is no shared write to the same array 
> capability).

	But the entire point is to share access.  Otherwise it is pretty
uninteresting.
	If you want a failover setup, there is no need for md locking
either.  Simply have the backup node not start the md until the failover
happens.

Joel

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-13 17:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-13  0:25 md on shared storage Brian Jackson
2002-11-13  1:19 ` Steven Dake
2002-11-13  3:00   ` Michael Clark
2002-11-13  3:15     ` Brian Jackson
2002-11-13 13:22       ` Michael Clark
2002-11-13  2:51 ` Michael Clark
2002-11-13 11:46 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2002-11-13 17:17   ` Steven Dake
2002-11-13 17:25     ` Joel Becker [this message]
2002-11-13 17:56       ` Steven Dake
2002-11-13 17:24   ` Joel Becker
2002-11-13 15:35 ` Eric Weigle
2002-11-13 18:33   ` Brian Jackson
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-11-13 19:25 Eric Weigle

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