Re: [vserver] HA vserver in an active/active configuration

From: Christian Balzer <chibi_at_gol.com>
Date: Wed 05 Mar 2008 - 14:01:45 GMT
Message-ID: <20080305230145.6e31411f@batzmaru.gol.ad.jp>

Hello Daniel,

On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 13:27:42 +0100 (CET) Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote:
> Christian Balzer wrote:
> >
> >
> > First of, I have 2 nodes, and 2 HA controlled filesystems, data-a and
> > data-b respectively. There is a sub-directory "guests" in both and
> > that in turn holds an "etc" and a "vservers" one, it should be obvious
> > what they are. :-p
> >
> > If I do a "vserver /data-a/guests/etc/engtest04 start" with data-a
> > mounted on node A, all is fine. On node A /etc/vservers is a symlink
> > to /data-a/guests/etc/, so that for normal operations (both nodes
> > up) things work out of the box w/o having to supply the path.
> > On node B it's obviously pointing to /data-b/...
>
> You actually want to keep /etc/vservers as a separate directory, or if
> you have configuration there you want to share, add /data-a and /data-b
> to /etc/vservers/.defaults/namespace-cleanup-skip.
>
Separate in what sense, completely on another file-system? The only issue
I had read about were with the barrier and that is supposedly fixed by the
additional directory above the actual vservers.
Anyways, thanks a bundle because namespace-cleanup-skip fixed it, though
not that I would have guessed this from the terse flower page or the
original error message. ^o^

Regards,

Christian

-- 
Christian Balzer        Network/Systems Engineer                NOC
chibi@gol.com   	Global OnLine Japan/Fusion Network Services
http://www.gol.com/
Received on Wed Mar 5 14:02:06 2008
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