Thank's a lot for your kind help! :-) For my project, I will try a distributed file system like Lustre, PVFS or HDFS, because it is very likely that I will need more than 2 nodes in the future.
Best Regards, Christian Am Dienstag, 26. Januar 2010 schrieb Elliott Perrin: > > On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 07:19:01AM +0100, Christian Baun wrote: > > > is it possible to use OCFS2 as a distributed file system? > > > I don't have a shared disk in my cluster. :-( > > > > Nope. ocfs2 is a shared disk filesystem. You can have one > > machine provide iSCSI targets and all the other machines use those > > iSCSI > > disks. > > > > Another possible option would be to use DRBD (http://www.drbd.org) along with > OCFS2 which would allow you to run DRBD in "dual-primary mode". I know of a > few people that are using this setup on 2 node web clusters and it works very > well for them. However I don't know if you can run this with more than 2 > nodes. > > The user guide for DRBD can be found here http://www.drbd.org/users-guide/ > > Cheers, > > Elliott Perrin > Senior Systems Architect > > Summit with Tenzing > > Direct: +1 877 767 5577 (x405) > Web: www.tenzing.com > email: elliott.per...@tenzing.com > > _______________________________________________ > Ocfs2-users mailing list > Ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com > http://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs2-users > _______________________________________________ Ocfs2-users mailing list Ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com http://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs2-users
