On Tue, 27 Apr 2010, Matt Lawrence wrote: [snip]
> 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. You might add OCFS2 into the mix of cluster file systems you look at. I found it much easier to setup than GFS2. > > 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? > I've heard good things about ceph but I'm not sure how stable it is at this point. For what it's worth, the client is being merged into the 2.6.43 kernel. -- Randy Smith http://www.vuser.org/ http://perlstalker.blogspot.com/
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