[Ocfs2-users] OCFS 1.2.4 and extended attributes

[HAWKER, Dan]

> 
> 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.  :)
> 

For a couple of reasons, mostly to do with failure prevention. As Ernest
replied, with NFS you end up with a single point of failure. Unless you
build in some NFS redundancy with failover. But again you are increasing
complexity and cost (additional servers required as the redundant NFS
heads). As some list members have mentioned this can be achieved (with a
NetAPP NFS cluster or similar), but unfortunately that is not something we
can really justify.

So it seemed to make sense to allow the development servers to access a
single central data repository, and hence my queries regarding the
performance of OCFS2 with *regular* data over regular services (as if there
is such a thing).

Thanks for the replies and opinions, I guess I'll just have to do some
testing of OCFS2 and GFS on my test rig :)

Dan--

Dan Hawker
Linux System Administrator
Astrium

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