[Ocfs2-users] OCFS2 for webhosting?

[mike]

AFS, Coda, etc. all seem to be massively complex from what I've
seen... they don't seem to be exactly what I'm looking for. I can't
really put it to words (I have a client issue that just came up, I
have to go run for that)

iSCSI wouldn't be an SPOF if I had > 1 "head unit" accessing the same
physical storage array (that has redundancy built in) would it? Since
all iSCSI adapters would be communicating with the array?


On 11/29/05, Eckenfels. Bernd <B.Eckenfels at seeburger.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> What about coda or AFS network file systems. If you dont need
> synchronous locked file access i consider this much better than the
> hardware you will need for SAN filesystems.
>
> BTW: iSCSI is also SPOF unless you have NAS Systems which support
> failover. But in that case you could use NFS (2 NetApp Filers for
> example).
>
> Gruss
> Bernd
>
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> [mailto:ocfs2-users-bounces at oss.oracle.com] On Behalf Of mike
> Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 2:48 AM
> To: ocfs2-users at oss.oracle.com
> Subject: [Ocfs2-users] OCFS2 for webhosting?
>
> I'm looking at getting some sort of shared storage with a GFS-style
> filesystem on top of it, so I have no single point of failure or
> bottleneck like I would using NFS (and have suffered from so far) - is
> OCFS2 stable? Does it make much sense to use for this?
>
> Right now I have 4 web nodes. Eventually that could grow to 20, who
> knows, maybe more. I'd love to use Coraid's ATA-over-Ethernet storage as
> well. Perhaps it does not properly support the semantics required by
> OCFS2 though (see this thread[1] saying that it doesn't allow for
> multi-path I/O which I believe OCFS2 would require?)
>
> iSCSI would be the next option, just have to find good pricing on that.
> The assumption is redundancy and scaling would be handled by the
> hardware (so there would be no SPOF or performance bottleneck there to
> have to rely on software to fix)
>
> Thanks for any info
> - mike
>
> [1] http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2005-November/014509.html
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