aj mckee femfrqngmailcom hi john paul interesting conversation ive used nfs ages set ago left bar upgrades etc fine would need presently prob future ive got 8tb iscsi devices really nice ability mount everything devsdc1 cloned machines nice easy iscsi kit already hardware redundancy iscsi call isan network redundant enough present fs safe enough terms backups rm rf clustered file system like ocfs2 id imagine gfs although ive looked exactly across nodes cluster still going rely restoring backups event something like happening would worried x competing file clean mess could done nfs sure would setup redundant nfs service something think situation adding extra layer necessarily needed present hence original question ocfs gfs fs shared storage situation fully accept agree nfs would handle situation well aj fri 08 aug 2008 080450 0000 ilug iscsi shared storage question