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Re: [Xen-users] XEN and clustering?
 
I had same situation, though I am not using cluster (I am using multipath and raw devices on shared storage). My workaround is issuing:
  echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
  after finishing copy or after an external change (e.g. by action on the shared storage independently from host) on the raw device. It works like a charm, but I am not sure what would be the right solution with cluster and raw devices - GFS is fine with files, CLVM with LVMs, but I am not using LVM either (and CLVM has a drawback - snapshots are not supported). 
 ZP.
 
 2010/2/27 Jakov Sosic  <jakov.sosic@xxxxxxx>
Hi. 
 
I'm using Xen on RHEL cluster, and I have strange problems. I gave raw 
volumes from storage to Xen virtual machines. With windows, I have a 
problem that nodes don't see the volume as same one.... for example: 
 
clusternode1# clusvcadm -d vm:winxp 
clusternode1# dd if=/dev/mapper/winxp of=/node1winxp 
clusternode2# dd if=/dev/mapper/winxp of=/node2winxp 
clusternode3# dd if=/dev/mapper/winxp of=/node3winxp 
 
When I download these files and diff them, they all three differ. 
 
Also, sometimes very strange things happen. For example I download some 
file into winxp, shut it down, then start it on another node, and file 
is missing?!?!?!?! 
 
Should I use maybe CLVM and not raw volumes from storage? Why is this 
happening? 
 
 
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