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List:       redhat-linux-cluster
Subject:    Re: [Linux-cluster] Running GFS as local file system
From:       Jonathan E Brassow <jbrassow () redhat ! com>
Date:       2007-02-26 16:15:24
Message-ID: 5c887d6e57303afa8bad78461432992f () redhat ! com
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On Feb 22, 2007, at 12:33 PM, Lin Shen (lshen) wrote:

> Is the cluster suite still required if I only use GFS as a local file
> system?

no.

>  Based on my experiment, it seems not. I just did a gfs_mkfs on a
> partition and that's it.

If using as a local file system, use the option '-p lock_nolock'.  In 
the future, if you want to use that FS in a cluster, you must change 
the locking protocol with gfs_tool.

> How easy is it to migrate files created under other file systems (such
> as ext3, reiser etc) into GFS?
>

cp/rsync?

  brassow

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