Does Red Hat recommend exporting GFS or GFS2 with NFS or Samba in a RHEL Resilient Storage cluster, and how should I configure it if I do?
Issue
- Does Red Hat recommend and support using GFS or GFS2 for NFS exporting?
- Do I require any special mount options when using GFS2 filesystem to serve NFS or Samba services?
- Can I serve NFS in an active/active configuration on RHEL HA?
- System panics when using clustered
plocks
on GFS2 to grant posix locks via NFS. - It is not possible to serve one GFS2 volume via NFS from multiple nodes at the same time if posix locks are being used for nfs locking.
- The system panics on
posix_lock_file
- How do I share my GFS or GFS2 file systems over NFS?
- The
dlm_plock_callback
must not appear in filesystem exported via NFS, follow resolution:
kernel: lockd: grant for unknown block
kernel: dlm: dlm_plock_callback: lock granted after lock</code>
Environment
- RHEL 6 or 7 with the Resilient Storage Add On
- Global File System 2 (
gfs2
)
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