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Global File System
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http://sources.redhat.com/cluster/
GFS2 is a cluster file system. It allows a cluster of computers to
simultaneously use a block device that is shared between them (with FC,
iSCSI, NBD, etc). GFS2 reads and writes to the block device like a local
file system, but also uses a lock module to allow the computers coordinate
their I/O so file system consistency is maintained. One of the nifty
features of GFS2 is perfect consistency -- changes made to the file system
on one machine show up immediately on all other machines in the cluster.
GFS2 uses interchangable inter-node locking mechanisms. The currently
supported methods are:
lock_nolock -- does no real locking and allows gfs to be used as a
local file system
lock_dlm -- uses a distributed lock manager (dlm) for inter-node locking
The dlm is found at linux/fs/dlm/
Lock_dlm depends on user space cluster management systems found
at the URL above.
To use GFS2 as a local file system, no external clustering systems are
needed, simply:
$ gfs2_mkfs -p lock_nolock -j 1 /dev/block_device
$ mount -t gfs2 /dev/block_device /dir
GFS2 is not on-disk compatible with previous versions of GFS, but it does
use a very smilar on-disk format, so that upgrading a filesystem can be
done in place and makes relatively few changes. Upgrading a filesystem
to GFS2 is not currently reversible.
The following man pages can be found at the URL above:
mkfs.gfs2 to make a filesystem
fsck.gfs2 to repair a filesystem
gfs2_grow to expand a filesystem online
gfs2_jadd to add journals to a filesystem online
gfs2_tool to manipulate, examine and tune a filesystem
gfs2_quota to examine and change quota values in a filesystem
gfs2_convert to convert a gfs filesystem to gfs2
mount.gfs2 to find mount options
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