On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:40:51 -0400, Jeff Sturm <jeff.sturm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:15:56 +0200, ESGLinux <esggrupos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > ok, I´m always afraid with data corruption and thougth I will have >> > problems with this, but If you think that there is not problem I´ll >> > folow your advice ( at my own risk of course, ;-) >> >> NFS is designed for concurrent access, it shouldn't cause corruption. And >> anyway, your apache web data is likely to be read-only in most cases >> anyway. Don't put things like database files into shared access areas, >> though - that generally won't work, and even when it does, performance >> will >> be appalling. > > Or if you still want the redundancy of RHCS and go the DRBD route, you can > always use the shared device for backups. (That's the ONLY thing I use NFS > for these days.) Don't underestimate NFS performance for heavily concurrent I/O with a significant write load on lots of small file from multiple nodes. There are things for which NFS is a better solution. Gordan -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
