[Users] Re: openvz with OCFS2

[Aleksandar Ivanisevic]

frank <frank at si.ct.upc.edu> writes:

> Hi OpenVZ users,
>
> recently we have started to use OCFS2 between our couple of OpenVZ
> servers (which are 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5.028stab079.2PAE) and we are
> experimenting periodic system crashes. We have an open bug with Oracle
> about this, but we would like to know if there are more people who use
> this kind of filesystem with OpenVZ and what is their experience.

I have tested it and it was working stable but openvz lacked proper
locking to allow it to be used reliably.

How are you preventing one VE to get started on multiple nodes over
the same data?