Re: about cluster file system and device file

From: Mark Bole <makbo_at_pacbell.net>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 00:13:11 GMT
Message-ID: <rqaRd.966$Pz7.174@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com>

Niy wrote:

> 1) is there cluster file system can run in different os? e.g, node
> A is linux, and node B is solaris.
>

Not OCFS (only available for Linux). Even if you could do so, you can't run RAC with two nodes under different OS.

> 2) for a shared LUN in a SAN, suppose both node A and node B running
> same os, the device file of this shared LUN is same for node A and
> node B?
>

Not necessarily, as you guessed.

>
> 3) After both node A and node B see the shared LUN, mkfs.ocfs in node
> A, do I still need to mkfs.ocfs in node B?

No.

-Mark Bole Received on Thu Feb 17 2005 - 18:13:11 CST