[Ocfs2-users] OCFS 1.2.4 and extended attributes

[Brian Long]

On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 18:31 +0000, HAWKER, Dan wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > I suppose it is a matter of personal preference, as well as 
> > what you are trying to accomplish.  GFS requires redhat 
> > cluster suite, which is a full blown cluster set up.  You 
> > don't have to set it up like that, you can do a minimal setup 
> > which will only do a filesystem share, but its still a lot of 
> > complexity, multiple lock managers and things.  I prefer the 
> > way OCFS2 is setup, where the setup is a little less 
> > invasive, but the setup is the same.  I only have a need for 
> > a shared file system, I don't have a cluster-aware 
> > application, nor does it need to be.  So for me, OCFS2 was 
> > the way to go.  
> > 
> Hi Ernest,
> 
> What kind of files are you serving up from you OCFS2 shared filesystem and
> the services that access it??? Am in the process of deciding on a Cluster FS
> for a mixed development network here, and although I like the lack of
> complexity in OCFS2 (as you have rightly mentioned, its much simpler than
> GFS), I am more concerned with performance, as OCFS2 is more targetted
> (obviously) at database access rather than as a regular filesystem. Most of
> my guys will be developing code (directly via ssh, eclipse, etc) on a series
> of servers that will directly access the shared filesystem.

If the servers don't need to access the storage as a block device, why
not just NAS / NFS?  That reduces the complexity even further.  :)

/Brian/

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