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тАО11-29-2009 12:22 PM
тАО11-29-2009 12:22 PM
I have Redhat cluster (active passive)installed on two of RHEL 5 server ( 2 * bl860c) , right now we are running with GFS file system however during the test GFS has been found performing badly and application team wants to go to Ext 3 . Ext 3 has been tested and seems performing 2 times better with respect to I/O by apps team.
Question 1 - In order to change GFS file system to Ext 3, what are the steps installed , do I need to only recreate the file system or recreate the whole cluster?
Question 2: Any simplified document for creation of Redhat cluster? I have one from Redhat , I want something very precise?
Thanks
RK
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тАО11-30-2009 08:31 AM
тАО11-30-2009 08:31 AM
Re: Converting GFS in to ext3 - Redhat cluster (RHEL 5)
1-Back up the data, use newfs to lay down a new file system, restore data. Do not trust short cuts in this area.
2-If you might share the document link you have, I could avoid giving you the same document you are already using. Bottom line is clustering is not simple, and you probably have a good document already.
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тАО11-30-2009 10:16 AM
тАО11-30-2009 10:16 AM
Re: Converting GFS in to ext3 - Redhat cluster (RHEL 5)
Thx for ur response, I did the similar steps.
1) Shtdown the service.
2) Removed the GFS resource from service. (service > Edit service properties)
3) Removed the resource.
4) Recreated the VG with ext3.
4) Recreated the VG with ext3.
lvremove XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
vgexport XXXXXXXXX
pvcreate ├в ff XXXXXXXXXX
vgcreate ├в s 32 XXXXXX XXXXXXXXXX
lvcreate ├в L 1012G XXXXXXXXX
mkfs ├в t ext3 XXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX
5)Re added the resource with file system option
6) Added the resource to service
7) Restarted the cluster moved the services here and there seems to be happening OK.
The document I followed downloaded from this link and seems OK for now.
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/
Questions 1 - Did I miss anything on the above steps for reformatting with EXT3? These servers going live in few days and I am fairly new to Redhat cluster and I have to be very sure.
Question 2 do I need clvmd Still running ?
Thanks in Advance
RK
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тАО12-01-2009 12:03 AM
тАО12-01-2009 12:03 AM
Solution(Also note that "vgexport" does not mean the same thing in Linux as in HP-UX. It does not remove the system's knowledge about the VG: it just sets the VG state so that it will not conflict if the VG's disks are moved to another system that already has a VG with the same name.)
2.) Yes, you need to have clvmd running.
After you switched the file system from GFS to ext3, the VG must no longer be allowed to be active on two or more nodes simultaneously, because ext3 cannot handle multiple access like that. (The combination of disk caching and ext3's ignorance of other nodes' actions would quickly cause data corruption in this situation.)
The clvmd will guard that this will never happen, and will stop any attempts to activate the VG if it's already active on another node.
One of the reasons why GFS is so much slower than plain ext3 is that it needs to obtain a cluster-wide lock for many disk operations, to allow multiple nodes access the same filesystem simultaneously without stepping on each other.
I hear that this critical coordination scheme has been optimized in a few important ways in GFS2, so it might be faster once it's production-ready. I guess we'll see in RHEL 6...
MK
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тАО12-01-2009 09:51 AM
тАО12-01-2009 09:51 AM
Re: Converting GFS in to ext3 - Redhat cluster (RHEL 5)
You made it clear for me.
Regards
Rajeev