gmirror problem/question

[Dmitriy Kirhlarov]

On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 08:49:19PM +0400, Anton Nikiforov wrote:

> I'm trying to implement gmirror file system for my cluster.
> Does someone using geom/gmirror solutions for that? any comments?
> 
> I'm confused with the algorithm of moving gmirrored volume from one server to another. 
> And how to add failed provider to a volume.

On first server you must make gmirror with one (local) disk. After
that, you must start ggated on second server, ggatec on first server,
run "gmirror forget ${DRIVE}" and add ggate${ID} disk in gmirror
mirror.

> I'm trying to stop the volume, then start ggatec on another server (all volumes are 
> always exported with ggated on both servers), then I'm recreating mirror with gmirror 

"always exported" -- not very good for me.

By.
Dmitriy