Disk-layout for some special nodes out of many
Stephan Hermann
sh at sourcecode.de
Thu Jun 25 18:27:43 CEST 2009
Hi Carsten,
what about the idea to give classes only usable for disk layouts??
Regards,
\sh
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:19:08 +0200
Carsten Aulbert <carsten.aulbert at aei.mpg.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have the following problem. Imagine I have about 20 machines which
> are defined in under classes as (with case $(hostname) around it):
>
>
> group*)
> echo "CLASS_A CLASS_B CLASS_C CLASS_D"
>
> Then I have a few nodes out of these which need to get a differnt disk
> layout, but apart from this, they they should be exactly the same,
> thus I put this before the line above:
>
> group*4)
> echo "CLASS_A CLASS_B CLASS_C CLASS_D CLASS_E"
>
> Hoever, now I have the problem that there are conflicting disk
> configurations:
>
> disk_config/CLASS_D as well as disk_config/CLASS_E
>
> I have not found the place yet where this is decided, since the first
> time I tested this on one box, it just worked and I never made it work
> on another box.
>
> Right now I only see two ways out here:
>
> (1) use the hostname as the disk_config/NAME as this seems to be a
> high priority class
> (2) create a disk_config for each group, e.g.
>
> disk_config/GROUP_STANDARD and disk_config/GROUP_SPECIAL
>
> and edit the files defiening the classes to refelct this.
>
> However, it would be nice to give priorities to classes, is this
> possible somehow?
>
> Cheers
>
> Carsten
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