[CentOS] Gfs and storage

Ajay Sharma ssharma at revsharecorp.com
Thu Aug 25 20:12:40 UTC 2005


Alan Hodgson wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 08:19:30PM +0100, Wayne wrote:
> 
>>Hi Guys,
>>
>>I have two mail servers and I want them to use gfs to share some storage
>>device.. I don't want to buy a storage device but I have a spare server that
>>maybe could be used. Anybody here use gfs without a proper san? Say just
>>somehow using a server running linux? Or anybody have any thoughts?
> 
> If your storage isn't HA anyway, just use NFS.  Should be much simpler to
> setup.

I was looking this for a while and couldn't find any decent 
documentation on how to do GFS "on the cheap".  I ended up just using 
NFS for my simple two-node web farm.  The ultramonkey.org packages make 
it super easy.

--Ajay



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