Hi! I am currently running a Linux fileserver with LVM 1.x, on kernel 2.4.19. The storage system consists of two scsi-raid5 (ibm serveraid 4m) both as physical volumes in a vg containing the volumes we share with netatalk and samba to our clients. We are going to buy a new fileserver system now. As we need high-availability in future (the new server will hold all data of the faculty of architecture here), we are going to implement a failover-scenario with to nodes accessing a fibrechannel storage with redundant paths'. We didn't decide so for wether to use ibm, compaq ore fujitsu-siemens hardware, but all three offer these solutions. As I know about gfs, I wonder how difficult it would be to add load balancing to this configuration by using gfs (so far we are on reiserfs 3.6x). Would we still need LVM (and is this a common combination)? I use LVM to give any department it's own volume, so that filesystem settings are made on a per department base, and I would like to keep this. I am not sure wether this is OT here, but as I have been on this list for a while now, I would like to ask which contact could help me further. I will download the eval version of gfs5.1 now and install it on my laptop - one node ;-) CU, Lars. _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
