[ILUG] NFS cluster

[David Golden]

On Tuesday 20 December 2005 18:57, bobb wrote:

> Surely the logical thing would be to share the GFS filesystem out to
> the client nodes, assuming of course thats possible, do all nodes
> need to have direct access to the shared storage in GFS ?
>

You can emulate such access with GNBD or iSCSI or ATA over Ethernet (the 
last of which I've never used) - essentially, GFS is for running on top 
of shared block devices. How the block devices come to be shared GFS 
doesn't care so much about. ( It is rumoured that the next version of 
DRBD will provide active-active block device mirror pairs for use with 
GFS,  too.).