On Jan 27, 2008 6:12 PM, Rainer Duffner <rainer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Am 27.01.2008 um 23:02 schrieb Terry: > > > > > > > Well, I am having a heck of a time wrapping my head around how > > clustering and gfs are related. My application is an N+1 type of > > configuration (grid computing). I don't need any application > > clustering that cluster suite offers. I just need a file system that > > they can all mount in read/write. > > > > People I have talked to, who have grid-computing requirements, > generally avoid GFS (because of the complexity) and choose NFS. > > Do you have concurrent writes to the same file from different nodes? > How many nodes do you have? > There are products tailored for this scenario (Isilon, Panasas).... > > > > cheers, > Rainer > -- > Rainer Duffner > CISSP, LPI, MCSE > rainer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Good questions: 1) Do you have concurrent writes to the same file from different nodes? 1a) No 2) How many nodes do you have? 2a) 3 to start, probably won't go beyond 12 I appreciate alternative ideas to NFS. NFS could possibly introduce performance issues (comments here appreciated). The majority of the system is write. I would say 80%. -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
