Hi, Matt: If might help if you could be less vague on a few points - what kinds of things are you sharing, and what were the challenges with NFS?
If you hadn't mentioned NFS as an issue, it would be one of my recommended choices. Also, what NFS implementation(s?) have you been using? Is the problem with NFS in general, or with specific implementations? It helps to know what you are sharing - i.e., if someone tells me that they have this product that uses Btrieve databases as its underlying mechanism (and yes, I have to work with a product that does exactly this ;-), I would say 'run away from NFS immediately' - the getattrs calls will kill your app. Other file sharing mechanisms have different profiles and issues. - Richard Matt Lawrence wrote: > 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. > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
