[CentOS] Parallel/Shared/Distributed Filesystems

I'm looking at using GFS for parallel access to shared storage, most likely an iSCSI resource. It will most likely work just fine but I am curious if folks are using anything with fewer system requisites (e.g. installing and configuring the Cluster Suite).

Specifically to our case, we have 50 nodes running in-house code (some in Java, some in C) which (among other things) receives JPGs, processes them and stores them for later viewing. We are looking to deploy this filesystem specifically for this JPG storage component.

All nodes are running Centos 5.1 x86_64.

-geoff

Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Deutschland http://www.galitz.org