9 Mar
2011
9 Mar
'11
2:40 p.m.
On Tue, 8 Mar 2011, wessel van der aart wrote:
does anyone here uses nfs without sync in production? does data corrupt often?
Yes, I use it. If you had an NFS server that regularly died due to hardware faults, or kernel panics, then I wouldn't consider using it.
all the data send from the nodes can be reproduced , so i would think an error is acceptable if it happens once a month or so.
Exactly.
are there any other options more suitable in this situation? i thought about GFS with iscsi but i'm not sure if that will work if the filesystem to be shared already exists in production.
Personally I'd start with NFS first, and then prove that it's not up to the job. If it is, it's a whole lot easier than any other option.
jh