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7 https://fedorahosted.org/cluster/wiki/HomePage
9 GFS is a cluster file system. It allows a cluster of computers to
10 simultaneously use a block device that is shared between them (with FC,
11 iSCSI, NBD, etc). GFS reads and writes to the block device like a local
12 file system, but also uses a lock module to allow the computers coordinate
13 their I/O so file system consistency is maintained. One of the nifty
14 features of GFS is perfect consistency -- changes made to the file system
15 on one machine show up immediately on all other machines in the cluster.
17 GFS uses interchangeable inter-node locking mechanisms, the currently
18 supported mechanisms are:
21 - allows gfs to be used as a local file system
24 - uses a distributed lock manager (dlm) for inter-node locking.
25 The dlm is found at linux/fs/dlm/
27 Lock_dlm depends on user space cluster management systems found
30 To use gfs as a local file system, no external clustering systems are
33 $ mkfs -t gfs2 -p lock_nolock -j 1 /dev/block_device
34 $ mount -t gfs2 /dev/block_device /dir
36 If you are using Fedora, you need to install the gfs2-utils package
37 and, for lock_dlm, you will also need to install the cman package
38 and write a cluster.conf as per the documentation. For F17 and above
39 cman has been replaced by the dlm package.
41 GFS2 is not on-disk compatible with previous versions of GFS, but it
44 The following man pages can be found at the URL above:
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47 fsck.gfs2 to repair a filesystem
48 gfs2_grow to expand a filesystem online
49 gfs2_jadd to add journals to a filesystem online
50 tunegfs2 to manipulate, examine and tune a filesystem
51 gfs2_convert to convert a gfs filesystem to gfs2 in-place
52 mkfs.gfs2 to make a filesystem
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