Re: High availabilty shared r/w disk space for linux quests.

2006-02-03 Thread John Summerfied
Rob van der Heij wrote: On 2/2/06, Phil Tully <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Only one server would attempt (according to the application developer) to write to any specific file so file level locking would not be required. You're right that the NFS server would be a single point of failure. Rea

Re: High availabilty shared r/w disk space for linux quests.

2006-02-02 Thread David Boyes
> I suggested running an NFS server but there was a concern of > this being a single point of failure. AFS. GPFS. Lustre. CFS. All deal much better with takeover after/during a failure. > Does anyone have a method of sharing a VM resource in R/W > mode amongst linux quests? If they're all

Re: High availabilty shared r/w disk space for linux quests.

2006-02-02 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 2/2/06, Phil Tully <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Only one server would attempt (according to the application developer) > to write to any specific file so file level locking would not be required. You're right that the NFS server would be a single point of failure. Real solutions come with a pr

High availabilty shared r/w disk space for linux quests.

2006-02-02 Thread Phil Tully
I am in the process of building a cluster of servers the where the application being deployed would gain a significant performance benefit if the linux guests could share a filesystem where each server would write small (less than 2k each) status files onto this shared space. Only one server wou