Subject Re: Firebird SQL Clustering questions
Author pet_predrag
--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr@...> wrote:
>
> pet_predrag wrote:
> >
> > So my idea is to implement GFS on the shared storage (/shared/db) and
> > then create two quorums one for one cluster, and the other for the
> > second cluster. After that I would register the following into a
> > cluster service:
> > - Shared IP address
> > - Shared Storage
> > - Firebird init.d script
>
> I'm afraid it won't work. The Classic processes should be able to
> synchronize the logical I/O operations (page reads/writes) in order to
> perform properly. It's done by the integrated lock manager, but it
> cannot work between cluster nodes. As soon as the lock manager is
> enhanced (or better say fixed) to delegate the calls to the external
> distributed lock manager (e.g. RedHat DLM), this would become a workable
> solution.
>
>
> Dmitry
>

Any ideas when this can be fixed, is it possible to do it with the superserver ?