text_combined: kevin brennan jpqascwkfikbredsquaredcom know gfs use gndb access local disks guess achieve reasonable performance would need connect san anyone experiences setting cost effective san gfs without compromising much performance scalability much kb john moylan wrote forwarded message john moylan date nov 15 2007 1133 subject ilug iscsi shared storage question evhqclubiie evhqjakmaorg seems confusion bout gfs disagree paul veering paths etc gfs serves valid purpose enterprise ready well integrated redhatcentos stack alternative nfs nfs would normally run ontop gfs gfs handles concurrency readswrites still replicate data normally using whatever came san something like veritass continuous access system clvm wont allow stripe accross sans fabic applies lvm changes nodes san get picked attached hosts good starting point redhat cluster nfs cookbook httpsourcesredhatcomclusterdocnfscookbookpdf previous advice stands set lab break fix system know strengths weaknesses comfortable idea support something goes wrong goes system though non clustered nfs included john nov 15 2007 1209 wrote wed 14 nov 2007 evhqclubiie wrote nfs rsync data backup nfs server manual failover really safe bet take little time setup maintain oh one thing bear mind distributed multinode fses dont necessarily provide redundancy distributed redundancy isnt entirely trivial nfs automounter provide effect consistent namespace bunch files spread across different machines regards paul jakma evhqclubiie evhqjakmaorg key id 64a2ff6a fortune news flash today east german polevault champion became west german polevault champion irish linux users group mailing list list httpmaillinuxiemailmanlistinfoilug httpwwwlinuxie httpwwwlinuxiemap fri 08 aug 2008 060013 0000 fwd ilug iscsi shared storage question