Ken: I'm also considering getting coraid EtherDrive -- www.coraid.com. The use ATA over Ethernet (AoE), and have drivers for Linux 2.4/2.6 that will make each drive appear a local drive. Basically you attach the Coraid server to a GigE switch and all the computers attached are able to see the drives as local drives. How would GFS work under such an implementation (it's close to something like the one GFS server you suggested). Will one still need to use iSCSI or GNDB? -----Original Message----- From: linux-cluster-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-cluster-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ken Preslan Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 4:36 PM To: Erik Tews Cc: Discussion of clustering software components including GFS Subject: [JNK] Re: [Linux-cluster] GFS with ATA/IDE drives On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 10:21:23PM +0200, Erik Tews wrote: > Was there any special reason for inventing GNBD instead of just using > iSCSI for network storage? Is it somehow faster or more relyable? GNBD is about 4 years old. It's worked for a long time. Long before you could get an iSCSI client for Linux. Will iSCSI get to the point where GNBD is obsolete and is dropped? Perhaps. -- Ken Preslan <kpreslan@xxxxxxxxxx> -- Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
