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 > -- > [email protected] mailing list > -- [email protected] mailing list
