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Subject: Re: md on shared storage
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Waiting to start a failed-over node doesn't work for booting raid 1 
mds...  Since autostart is required.

Joel Becker wrote:

>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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