On Tue, 8 Mar 2011, wessel van der aart wrote: > does anyone here uses nfs without sync in production? does data corrupt > often? Yes, I use it. If you had an NFS server that regularly died due to hardware faults, or kernel panics, then I wouldn't consider using it. > all the data send from the nodes can be reproduced , so i would think an > error is acceptable if it happens once a month or so. Exactly. > are there any other options more suitable in this situation? i thought > about GFS with iscsi but i'm not sure if that will work if the filesystem > to be shared already exists in production. Personally I'd start with NFS first, and then prove that it's not up to the job. If it is, it's a whole lot easier than any other option. jh _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos