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color=#0000ff size=2>you could use OCFS2 for it, however you will need to
reconfigure your storage: The Disks must be available to all Servers (in a SAN
for example). You could maybe do something with network devices (iSCSI) but I
guess thats not the perfect throughput. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>The question is if your clients who access the file will
directly be part of the OCFS2 cluster (direct access to the SAN which is fast
but expensve), or if you have a limited number of OCFS2 nodes exorting a network
filesystem like NFS or (maybe) samba to your workstations.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>Gruss</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>Bernd</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> ocfs2-users-bounces@oss.oracle.com
[mailto:ocfs2-users-bounces@oss.oracle.com] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Thad
Beier<BR><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, November 04, 2006 1:36 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
Ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Ocfs2-users] Newbie questions --
is OCFS2 what I even want?<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>Dear Sirs and Madams,<BR><BR>I run a small visual effects production
company, Hammerhead Productions.<BR><BR>We'd like to have an easily extensible
inexpensive relatively high-performance<BR>storage network using open-source
components. I was hoping that OCFS2 <BR>would be that system.<BR><BR>I
have a half-dozen 2 TB fileservers I'd like the rest of the network to see<BR>as
a single 12 TB disk, with the aggregate throughput of the six servers<BR>serving
some 50 compute nodes on the network. <BR><BR>Is this what OCFS2 is for, or
not? My guess is that it isn't, but I'm having<BR>a hard time parsing the
documentation. If it isn't what OCFS2 is for, what<BR>am I looking
for?<BR><BR>Thanks,<BR><BR>Thad Beier<BR clear=all><BR>-- <BR>Thad
Beier<BR>Hammerhead Productions<BR><A
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