Take a look at the XFS file system.  My understanding is that it's well suited 
for the type of environment you described.

You can find a relatively decent description of the more common filesystems 
here: 
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=4#doc_chap4

HTH

Shawn


On Wednesday 18 May 2005 16:48, Dany Allard wrote:
> Has anyone over done work with this file system?
> http://www.redhat.com/software/rha/gfs/
>
> This is pretty much what I am trying to do, without the cluster.
> Each of the servers has its own OS fibre drive, then I want to share one
> of the SAN partitions across the 5 servers.
>
>  Thanks
>
>  Dany Allard
>
> Dany Allard wrote:
> >Hello everyone
> >
> > Is it possible to have a shared volume between multiple Linux machines?
> >
> >Here is what I am trying to do. I have 5 Linux machines hooked up to a
> > san. I have 500Gigs of disk that I want to share between all five
> > machines. I want the 5 machines to be able to see and access the same
> > data on that drive.
> >I want be able to increase the size of the drive as needed (I have
> >currently configured it as an lvm and it is compromised of 2 "virtual"
> >drives of 250Gigs each).
> >
> >Is this possible without buying additional software??
> >
> >I could go with a cluster, but I want to see if I can do it individualy
> >(so I can run different versions of Linux).
> >
> >any input would be appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Dany Allard
>
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