All we need is a cluster file system to aggregate local disks attached to different nodes into a shared storage pool. GFS+GNBD fits in our requirement nicely except the cluster suite that comes with it. We really don't need/want to turn our system into a cluster by using GFS since we're not very clear about what are the side effects that would bring in. Would it slow down the system more, take up more memory and affect the system bootup and shutdown sequencies etc? How easy is it to remove some or all of the clusterness from GFS such as fencing, cman and ccsd stuff? I understand that things like dlm must stay for GFS to work. Thanks lin -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
