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Re: [Xen-users] iSCSI Volumes and Xen

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 07:56:05AM -0600, Joseph Coleman wrote:
> What would you recommend I use for a filesystem? 
> 

And you don't necessarily need a filesystem at all. 
You could just use Cluster LVM (CLVM) to store the guest disks.

-- Pasi

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Couchman [mailto:Nick.Couchman@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 8:54 PM
> To: Joseph Coleman; 'xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: Re: [Xen-users] iSCSI Volumes and Xen
> 
> You're almost certainly not using a cluster-aware filesystem if you're seeing 
> this behavior - if you mount a filesystem on more than one machine at a time 
> you *must* use a cluster-aware filesystem - otherwise you *will* corrupt your 
> filesystem and lose the contents.
> 
> -Nick
> 
> >>> On 2010/01/12 at 13:25, Joseph Coleman <joe.coleman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
> >>> wrote:
> > I am moving away from NFS due to performance issues and going to iSCSI I 
> > have 
> > a 4 node environment that I am going to cluster. However, when I share out 
> > the iSCSI volume with all 4 servers and mount the volume as /var/vm  on the 
> > servers they are unable to view the files or folders the other server 
> > creates. How can I get around this?
> 
> 
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