It is an intentionally vague description since I want to keep an open 
mind.

This needs to run on linux, both clients and servers.

Right now I am dealing with an older HA linux setup with NFS.  It seems to 
be having problems and there have been some ugly and expensive application 
failures.  I am looking for a solution that will be a lot more reliable 
and robust.

I am just starting my search for a replacement.  The first things that 
come to mind are GPFS, GFS2 and GlusterFS.  I am expecting that GFS2 will 
require mounting remote drives via iSCSI that are mirrored.  I'm not sure 
exactly how the resync would occur after a failure, I could use some 
insight.  I have a call scheduled with the Gluster folks to discuss how to 
do it with GlusterFS, I do know that it supports mirroring on the client 
end.  I have never done a GPFS setup and haven't even touched a GPFS setup 
in many years.

AFS isn't an option, the Kerberos and ticketing infrastructure isn't 
feasible to implement here.

I have already suggested buying a NAS setup, but was shot down.

What other solutions should I be looking at?

-- Matt
It's not what I know that counts.
It's what I can remember in time to use.
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