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Conference smurf::ase

Title:ase
Moderator:SMURF::GROSSO
Created:Thu Jul 29 1993
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:2114
Total number of notes:7347

2100.0. "ADVFS and TruCluster" by SALEM::ARNOLD () Thu May 29 1997 20:04

    Can you use ADVFS with TruCluster?  I'm asking this question because
    one of our customers said that they read in a manual, I don't know
    which manual they are refering to, that if TruCluster is being used 
    ADVFS should not be installed.
    
    We have shipped alot of machines using ADVFS and TruCluster software
    both as the system disk and for the shared storaged configurations.
    If this is not correct we have a serious problem.
    
    Thanks for any help that can be provided.
    
    Howard
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2100.1you betUSCTR1::ASCHERDave AscherThu May 29 1997 20:525
*    Can you use ADVFS with TruCluster? 
    
    absolutely, definitely. must be a very old manual.
    
    d
2100.2Thanks, any issues.SALEM::ARNOLDFri May 30 1997 00:404
    Thanks,  I thought you could.  Are there any known issues with using
    the two togeather.
    
    Howard
2100.3KITCHE::schottEric R. Schott USG Product ManagementFri May 30 1997 00:428
Not really...

  all disks in an advfs domain must be in the same ase service

 follow the usual advfs rules of running defragment regularly...etc

see the docs

2100.4ThanksSALEM::ARNOLDFri May 30 1997 01:111
    
2100.5Access to AdvFS File System?USPS::FPRUSSFrank Pruss, 202-232-7347Sat May 31 1997 16:475
    My understanding is that in a TruCluster, an AdvFS file system can be
    configured as an ASE service, but that at any given time the nodes that
    do not "own" the disks access it via NFS.
    
    Is this correct?
2100.6BACHUS::DEVOSManu Devos NSIS Brussels 856-7539Sun Jun 01 1997 14:3817
    Hi Frank,
    
>    My understanding is that in a TruCluster, an AdvFS file system can be 
>    configured as an ASE service, but that at any given time the nodes
>    that do not "own" the disks access it via NFS.
      
>    Is this correct?
    
    Yes and no..., Yes an ASE service AdvFS filesystem is only own by one and 
    only one system. Yes the others system(s) CAN  access the filesystem
    via NFS if the start/stop scripts  have been tailored to NFS export
    the filesystem. But, No the other system(s) do not access it
    systematically and automatically as your wording seems to imply.
    
    Regrads, Manu.