On Jan 25, 2008 10:45 AM, <gordan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >>> Also, two more questions: > >>> 1) What about putting this NFS cluster in VMware? > >>> 2) I am assuming this would have to be an active-standby model since > >>> only 1 host can "own" the disk in read/write, correct? > >> > >> No, the whole point of GFS is that you can have multiple nodes mounting > >> and using the same volume r/w at the same time. > >> > > > > OK, that makes sense. My other question is what other filesystems > > does Red Hat support that can be used in this fashion? PVFS, OCFS, > > etc. ? > > By and large, none. GFS is fairly unique in the way it does things. The > rest of the world hasn't really caught up yet. ;-) > > I'm not sure why OCFS keeps coming up, since it's not a normal, general > purpose file system. It's only useful for putting Oracle DB volumes on it. > > > Gordan It came up in my case just because I am fairly uninformed in this realm. :) -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
