Definitely right in saying that all those apps do definitely not need a clustered FS. If one of your concerns is high availability, local FS cannot be the option unless some DRBD setup is done (I have no idea on how complex or not it can be). The classical way, would be to use shared storage (block device based--> cannot be NFS) FC, ISCSI, on which LVM (CLVM or HA LVM) volumes are built holding themselves legacy FS (ext3). Ideally, CLVM is my prefered option, the only problem with it being that the Redhat cluster shipped resource script doesn't handle exclusive activation "yet" (something needed when runnning active/passive clustered services with CLVM) and you'll need to use instead Rafael Mico Miranda resource script (in this post https://www.redhat.com/archives/cluster-devel/2009-June/msg00020.html) 2009/10/13 Mike Cardwell <linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > carlopmart wrote: > >> I need to install three basic services on this cluster: a corporative >> proxy (squid), MTA outbound server (postfix) and a dns slave service. My >> problem is that I can't use noatime,nodiratime flags if i use GFS/GFS2 to >> deploy these services because all needs this flags activated ... and I don't >> want to use external software like ocfs2 ... > > Why do you think you need a clustered filesystem then? None of those > services require one... I wouldn't recommend adding the complexity of a > clustered filesystem unless you really have to; all it will do is reduce the > reliability of the system. Each of those applications can work with their > own standalone local filesystems... > > -- > Mike Cardwell - IT Consultant and LAMP developer > Cardwell IT Ltd. (UK Reg'd Company #06920226) http://cardwellit.com/ > Technical Blog: https://secure.grepular.com/blog/ > > -- > 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
