Maciek Kaliszewski wrote:
I don't want to dispute terminology . Everyone has its own :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_file_systems#Distributed_file_systems
It's not a matter of terminology. When I said I want to share a block
device between two machines, it should have been clear what I was trying
to do. There's no connection between that kind of thing and NFS or Coda
whatsoever, nor can it be. I was talking about things like CXFS, OCFS2, GFS.
VirtualBox is supposed to emulate desktop PC not full blown
hiper-complicated machine ,but I think any improvements will be
welcomed by developers :-).
This sort of setup is business as usual for SAN admins or Oracle admins.
And VMware apparently can do it already. I may have to try that.
If it is necessary to access one physical disk form few virtual machines
ATA over Ethernet it is way to go
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ata_over_ethernet
Never tried ,but may work
There are many ways to do that. iSCSI works too. DRBD is another way, in
fact it looks like it's preferred by those doing low-end OCFS2
deployments, if my google searches are any indication.
But all these solutions emulate over IP the real thing (SAN on
FiberChannel). The performance is lower.
--
Florin Andrei
http://florin.myip.org/
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