<br>Is there any cluster NFS solution out there? (Two NFS servers sharing the same filesystem with distributed locking and failover capability)<br><br>Regards,<br>Luis<br><br><b><i>Sunil Mushran <Sunil.Mushran@oracle.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> Appears what you are looking for is a mix of ocfs2 and nfs.<br>The storage servers mount the shared disks and the reexport<br>them via nfs to the remaining servers.<br><br>ubuntu 6.06 is too old. If you are stuck on Ubuntu LTS, the<br>next version 7.10 should have all you want.<br><br>Pavel Georgiev wrote:<br>> Hi List,<br>><br>> I`m trying to build a cluster storage with commodity hardware in a way that <br>> the all the data would be on > 1 server. It should have the meet the <br>> following requirements:<br>> 1) If one of the servers goes down, the cluster should continue to work with <br>> rw
access from all clients.<br>> 2) Clients that mount the storage should not be part of cluster (not export <br>> any disk storage) - I have few servers with huge disks that I want to store <br>> data on (currently 2 servers, maybe more in the future) and I want to <br>> storethe data only on them, the rest of the server should just mount and use <br>> that storage with the ability to continue operation if one of the two storage <br>> servers goes down.<br>> 3) More servers should be able to join the cluster and at given point, <br>> expanding the total size of the cluster, hopefully without rebuilding the <br>> storage.<br>> 4) Load balance is not a issue - all the load can go to one of the two storage <br>> servers (although its better to be balanced), the main goal is to have <br>> redundant storage <br>><br>> Does ocfs2 meet these requirements? I read few howtos but none of them <br>> mentioned my second requirement (only some
of the servers to hold the data).<br>><br>> Are there any specific steps to do to accomplish (2) and (3)? <br>><br>> I`m using Ubuntu 6.06 on x86.<br>><br>> Thanks!<br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Ocfs2-users mailing list<br>> Ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com<br>> http://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs2-users<br>> <br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Ocfs2-users mailing list<br>Ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com<br>http://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs2-users<br></blockquote><br><p> 
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