Both are example of potential shared filesystems... GFS is even pitched as a
low cost alternative to a SAN or NAS (see redhats docs).

I would agree that the technologies are vastly different.  GFS is a
clustering Filesystem, where as iSCSI is a block level device similar to FC
and FCAL.

Regards,

Sean


On 25-Jan-2007, paul k?lle wrote:
> Sean Cook schrieb:
> > 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.
> Aren't those apples and oranges? I thought iSCSI is a block level
> protocol and doesn't do locking and such whereas GFS does...
> 
> sorry, noob wrt above
>  Paul
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