ISCSI Raid and Clustered File Systems: Difference between revisions

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This material is obsolete ...

SCST is deprecated since Alpine 2.6 in favor of TCM and OCFS2 isn't available in Alpine 3.6 (Discuss)

This document describes how to created a raided file system that is exported to multiple host via ISCSI.

apk install mdadm

mdadm --create --level=5 --raid-devices=3 /dev/md0 /dev/hda /dev/hdb /dev/hdc

To see the status of the creation of these devices

cat /proc/mdstat

You Don't have to wait to continue to use the disk.

SCST is recommended over IET, due to bugfixes, performance and RFC compliance.

iscsiadm --mode node --targetname NAME_OF_TARGET --portal IP_OF_TARGET --login

This should then give you a device /dev/sda. Check by dmesg.

fdisk /dev/sda

Create a partition to use. sda1 file system type 83

Add ocfs2 tools (available in Alpine 2.3 or greater)

apk add ocfs2-tools

It can take care of starting and stopping services, copying the cluster.conf between nodes,creating the filesystem, and mounting it.

Need to create a /etc/ocfs2/cluster.conf.

This configuration file should be the same on all the nodes in the cluster. Should look similar to the following...

node:

       ip_port = 7777
       ip_address = 192.168.1.202
       number = 0
       name = bubba
       cluster = ocfs2

node:

       ip_port = 7777
       ip_address = 192.168.1.102
       number = 1
       name = bobo
       cluster = ocfs2

cluster:

       node_count = 2
       name = ocfs2

Load modules:

echo ocfs2 >> /etc/modules-load.d/ocfs2.conf
echo dlm >> /etc/modules-load.d/dlm.conf

modprobe ocfs2
modprobe dlm

Mount ocfs2 metafilesystems

echo none /sys/kernel/config configfs defaults 0 0 >> /etc/fstab
echo none /sys/kernel/dlm ocfs2_dlmfs defaults 0 0 >> /etc/fstab

Start ocfs2 cluster

rc-service o2cb start

Run the following command only on one node.

mkfs.ocfs2 -L LABELNAME /dev/sda1

Run the following command on both nodes.

rc-service o2cb enable

mount /dev/sda1 /media/iscsi1

Now you can create read/write/change on both machines to the one drive at the same time.

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+{{Obsolete|SCST is deprecated since Alpine 2.6 in favor of [[Linux_iSCSI_Target_(TCM)|TCM]] and OCFS2 isn't available in Alpine 3.6}}
 This document describes how to created a raided file system that is exported to multiple host via ISCSI.
 == Raid Configuration ==
-Very Similar to [[Setting up a software RAID1 array]].
+Very Similar to [[Setting up a software RAID array]].
   apk install mdadm
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 == iSCSI Target Config ==
-[http://scst.sourceforge.net/target_iscsi.html SCST] is recommended over [http://iscsitarget.sourceforge.net/ IET], due to bugfixes, performance and RFC compliance.
+[https://scst.sourceforge.net/target_iscsi.html SCST] is recommended over [https://iscsitarget.sourceforge.net/ IET], due to bugfixes, performance and RFC compliance.
-For a detailed config how-to please look at [[High_performance_SCST_iSCSI_Target_on_Linux_software_Raid]]
 == Initiator Config ==
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 Load modules:
-  echo ocfs2 >> /etc/modules
+  echo ocfs2 >> /etc/modules-load.d/ocfs2.conf
-  echo dlm >> /etc/modules
+  echo dlm >> /etc/modules-load.d/dlm.conf
   modprobe ocfs2
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 Start ocfs2 cluster
-  /etc/init.d/o2cb start
+  rc-service o2cb start
 Run the following command only on one node.
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 Run the following command on both nodes.
-  /etc/init.d/o2cb enable
+  rc-service o2cb enable
   mount /dev/sda1 /media/iscsi1