iet list has people who use gfs with iscsi. they might be able to help
you.
ming
On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 05:24 -0800, michael.weitzel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi,
>
> has anyone tried Open-iSCSI together with LVM and GFS (Global File
> System; Redhat open source).
>
> I have a cluster of 8 nodes (x86_64) where 4 nodes export an IDE disk
> via ietd. The IDE disks were labeled by LVM's pvcreate and build a
> volume group with a single logical volume. This volume group can be
> seen from all nodes (nodes which export their own IDE drive use the
> native block dev instead of the SCSI-dev imported with open-iscsi).
>
> I've compiled and installed redhat's GFS and CLVMD to use this
> distributed volume group on all nodes simultaneously. Creating and
> mounting the GFS volume works but the filesystem gets corrupted after
> some testing. Any ideas? Can I disable write-caching for the
> iSCSI-devices? Has anyone used iSCSI+GFS before?
>
> Another problem: open-iscsi creates a new scsi-host for each imported
> disk. Is it possible to "bundle" the devices on a single host?
> (although it might not conform to the rfc...)
>
> Thanks!
>
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