Hello,
Look into GFS (Global File System) if is available I believe for any distrobut RH offers support if you purchase theirs.
Will you will need to consider is how the data will be used, GFS and NFS do not provide file locking. So it will be up to the application to provide file locking !!!
Also what will you be doing with the data ?? For example if you are creating multiple FTP servers so thousands of connections can read and download data only, no writes then you could use:
2+ GFS servers to provide NFS exports to X number of FTP servers so thousands of clients can connect. How ever NFS scales poorly with with lots of writes.
Also remember that fiber is limited to 2GB through put I believe, so if the data was accessed via ethernet GB or even better 10GB would be ideal.
If you want all machines directly connected via a fiber switch then GFS would be the best bet depending on the application and how it protects your data.
For example Courier IMAP has some type of NFS file locking feature, not sure how it works or how well. But if you wanted to run 5 IMAP serves all connected via fiber switch and run a IMAP farm then Courier with the NFS lock may be a start.
If you provide more information about what you want to do, we might be able to help more.
Michael
Nick W wrote:
On Wednesday 18 May 2005 16:19, Juan Alberto Cirez wrote:
What about Samba....It works just as well when dealling with a linux-only environment
NFS is probably easier, and is part of the Kernel.
run: man exports
Travis Rousseau wrote:
On 5/18/05, Dany Allard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello everyone
Is it possible to have a shared volume between multiple Linux machines?
Have you tried NFS?
Travis R.
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