Am Mi, den 30.06.2004 schrieb Ken Preslan um 22:06: > > 1. Does GFS support ATA/IDE drives? (I see SCSI and FC in the docs) 2. If > > yes, is it recommended by Red Hat 3. Is it better to use iSCSI or GNDB (any > > know issues) > ... > The most simple setup is to have one machine with a big pile of IDE disks > export thost disks to an IP network with GNBD (or iSCSI). The client > machines (running GFS) then import the disks from the GNBD server and > GFS manages the concurrent access. A setup like that works fine. The > problem is the one GNBD server is a single point of failure. If that one > machine dies, they whole cluster dies. Was there any special reason for inventing GNBD instead of just using iSCSI for network storage? Is it somehow faster or more relyable?
