I want to make the 10 terabytes raid an xfs filesystem and then share the drive with all 4 of the vm's. 3 of the servers will be samba servers and one will be my Lotus notes server. I want to make the filesystem /data and then each one of the servers will use specific sub directories. I have it set up as block devices now but I want the flexibility of having the whole 10 terabytes available to all 4 servers. <br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 1:28 AM, Christopher G. Stach II <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cgs@ldsys.net">cgs@ldsys.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">----- "Adam Adamou" <<a href="mailto:adam0x54@gmail.com">adam0x54@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> either nfs or ocfs2. nfs is the easiest route. ocfs2 will give you a<br>
> clustered filesystem.<br>
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</div>Except NFS doesn't follow normal filesystem semantics and you can end up with corrupt data without knowing it, and it, along with CIFS, will give you a free shitload of network overhead to go along with your possibly corrupt data. OCFS2 or GFS are the only practical choices if you want it to behave like a typical filesystem and not have to worry about catering to it or rewriting software and/or reeducating developers, and OCFS2 is extremely easy to set up.<br>
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The original question didn't specify much about the requirements, though. A single shared filesystem? Read-write or read-only? No filesystem at all? Without that information, I would at first recommend not sharing. It can be a lot of trouble, it's usually not required, and it severely complicates life when things fail.<br>
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Well, there is always XenFS... :/<br>
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