evhqclubiie fri 16 nov 2007 john moylan wrote forgot mention nfs rsync manual failover also make single nfs server performance choke point much problem exactly nfs unlikely bottleneck webserving eg hpc see parallel nfs fully backwards compat btw though widely deployed yet know export different directories different nfs servers try balance load increases risk hardware failure one nfs servers effecting systems spread load additional hardware via gfs somehow avoid risk note expensive complex niche technology gfs allow eg multiple nfs servers exporting gfs filesystem san fabric id sceptical mtbf setup appreciably better small number highquality nfs servers far complex setup setup indisputably expensive though least times anyway regards paul jakma evhqclubiie pauljakmaorg key id 64a2ff6a fortune try please everyone somebody going like fri 08 aug 2008 073305 0000 ilug iscsi shared storage question