> -----Original Message----- > Due to limitations and performance problems that contanins GFS and GFS2, I think > to use a OpenSolaris NFS server (with ZFS) to serve shared storage for three cluster > nodes using RHEL5.4. > > Somebody have tried this type of configruation?? any special recommendations?? You're probably not going to get any good recommendations unless you can tell us something about your application. GFS and GFS2 (like OCFS) are clustered filesystems that work at a layer above shared block storage (iSCSI, FC, etc.) SAN. NFS (like CIFS) is a distributed filesystem that does not require any shared block storage or SAN appliance. GFS and NFS are entirely different. NFS works well for some purposes, for others a clustered filesystem is superior. Note that you can export a GFS filesystem to mount it remotely with NFS or CIFS, so the two are not mutually exclusive at all. That can be a good approach to build a fault-tolerant NFS service as well. -Jeff -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
