On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 10:42:01 -0700, Christopher McCrory <chrismcc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello... > > Last year I looked at several distributed filesystems; OpenAFS, GFS, > and NFS. This was for a specific project. I settled on NFS over LVM > over software raid5. It works well except for a few NFS issues here > and there. I really wanted to go with GFS but the lack of good > documentation held me back. What would be ideal is a specific simple > HOWTO on setting up a simple lab test setup. One thing I always wanted to do with OpenGFS was create a howto-matic. I may look at resurrecting that idea (my TODO list already has quite a few things on it). Getting some of the good bits of docs from ogfs is also on my TODO list. --Brian Jackson > > something like: > > replicated with failover > server1 fs /important_data on /dev/sdb1 > server2 fs /important_data on /dev/sdb1 > > client1 mount /important_data > client2 mount /important_data > > with no FC, no shared scsi, no dual ethernet networks. Just the > minimum hardware possible. Most labs already have this stuff laying > around. > > yes? no? maybe? > > -- > Christopher McCrory > "The guy that keeps the servers running" > > -- > > Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster >
