john moylan etfznuatechnet forgot mention nfs rsync manual failover also make single nfs server performance choke point much problem exactly nfs unlikely bottleneck webserving depends busy site f eg hpc see parallel nfs fully backwards compat btw though widely deployed yet interested links spread load additional hardware via gfs somehow avoid risk note expensive complex niche technology true yes expensive people san infrastructure place already rest expensive id sceptical mtbf setup appreciably better small number highquality nfs servers far complex setup mtbf one points gfs although agree kiss principle keep simple stupid applied situations requirements often demand complex setups setup indisputably expensive though least times proper san fabric expensive yes j fri 08 aug 2008 073616 0000 ilug iscsi shared storage question