From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HAB2o-0004p4-15 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 20:18:02 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l0PKHSYV023484; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 20:17:28 GMT Received: from smtp.kinex.net (pop.kinex.net [207.42.174.24]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l0PKFUev021110 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 20:15:30 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.kinex.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 811E04007FA for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:15:29 -0500 (EST) Received: from smtp.kinex.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.kinex.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 27895-01 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:15:29 -0500 (EST) Received: from home.squishychicken.com (unknown [69.68.239.4]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.kinex.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42D1A4007F5 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:15:29 -0500 (EST) Received: by home.squishychicken.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:15:37 -0500 Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:15:37 -0500 From: Sean Cook To: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] SAN Clustered Filesystem Message-ID: <20070125201537.GA30523@gandalf.squishychicken.com> References: <45B90C20.4060305@wisc.edu> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-server@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45B90C20.4060305@wisc.edu> X-Operating-System: Linux 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 i686 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at kinex.net X-Archives-Salt: 87014f76-c7ef-4df6-b100-a7c5f8010cd5 X-Archives-Hash: 8e8526334ddf56f2522998b3a176d1d5 I would actually spend a little more and start looking at iSCSI for attached storage. You can generally pickup some decent chassis on ebay for not a lot of change and it gives you a lot more flexibility. GFS is ok if you don't want to mess around with a SAN but it has no where near the performance of fiber or iSCSI attached storage. Here is exactly what I am talking about... http://cgi.ebay.com/Dell-EMC-AX100i-iSCSI-12-Slot-SAN-Array-w-4x-250GB-HDD_W0QQitemZ300072200442QQihZ020QQcategoryZ111458QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem On 25-Jan-2007, Brian Kroth wrote: > Hello all, > > I currently manage about 40 Window, OSX, and Hardened Gentoo servers. I > will soon have 12 P4 servers that were previously used as video encoders > free as well as an Apple XRaid. With all this spare hardware I thought > I'd research setting up a cluster of servers running Apache for load > balancing and high availability. I'm also looking into a MySQL cluster, > but that wouldn't require a shared filesystem. I'm wondering if anyone > has done something like this before and in particular knows a good > filesystem to use so that each of the servers can access and potentially > write to the same storage array. I've accomplished the same thing with > XServes running OSX, but they like to charge you a pretty penny for the > XSan software that allows this which I thought I'd try to avoid if > possible. So far I've seen only GFS, but haven't gotten much reading > done on it yet. Any other tips or insights would be appreciated as well. > > Thanks, > Brian > -- > gentoo-server@gentoo.org mailing list > -- gentoo-server@gentoo.org mailing list