RE: [SSI-devel] SSI Failover installation

[Roger T. <pe...@ho...>]

>trouble with the old drbd, I actually got shared disk drive (PowerVault
>200S). There are two internal disks in two of the servers.
>
>Step A:
>ALL on Server 1:
>
>I. Install Fedora Core 2 with the boot partition on the internal disk drive
>(Can I have the boot partition on the second internal disk? Is there
>anything that I should be aware of? )

Move the root mount onto your shared disk drive before you test failover.

>3. Add local boot device
>(Can someone tell me what the steps for adding a local boot device on 
>server
>2? I looked in the documents it was not clear to me. If you can point me to
>the right document that would also be helpful)

That documentation pretty much gives you step by step instructions including 
specific commands.  Ask which step you aren't clear about.

>
>The other question is how should database failover be handled? If node 1
>fails the database might not have flushed all the data to the disk. So the
>second node should actually recover from the logs instead of just starting 
>a

Turn off write cache.


-Roger
PS.  How much did your shared disk drives go for?