Re: [gentoo-cluster] SAN Clustered Filesystem

Brian,
  Have you seen this project:
    http://www.pvfs.org/

  Multi-disk/multi-server storage, sounds like what you're wanting.  If
found it when hunting for a package to help me build something like the
Isilon (sp?) systems.

/djb


> G'day Brian,
>
> I've played around with OCFS2 and AoE in combination with Xen and they
> seem to work alright.
>
> I did have to increase the hearbeat timout for OCFS2 because all the
> machines would think the SAN went offline when there was _heavy_ load.
> Works a treat now that the timeout has been increased though.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Brad
>
> On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 13:59:28 -0600
> Brian Kroth <bpkroth@××××.edu> 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
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