On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 14:41 -0600, isplist@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Is there anything out there that would allow me to share my GFS storage with > other systems which aren't in the cluster? export the gfs volume with nfs from the cluster. > > Or, is there any way of setting up a cluster so that none of the nodes would > ever take the cluster down? Perhaps having a very low vote such as 2 voting > nodes to make a cluster yet have 30 machines in it? quorum disk. > > The reason I am asking this is because I badly need to have shared storage > like GFS but having to maintain a cluster is making the whole idea go south. I > need to be able to add/remove servers without having to worry about keeping > the cluster intact all the time. that type of dynamic access requires another mode, like nfs or cifs. > > Keeping it intact for highly reliable services such as web servers and so on > is easy enough by creating small clusters. My problem is that I am needing > more and more, GFS like sharing but network wide to any machine. I know I can > get at the data from behind a server but I'd prefer to have it in front such > as FC gives me. nice dream... ;) > > I'll be happy to try to explain this better if someone has any questions. I'm > just not sure how to explain this :). > > Mike > > > > -- > Linux-cluster mailing list > Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
