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. On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 1:28 AM, Christopher G. Stach II <cgs at ldsys.net>wrote: > ----- "Adam Adamou" <adam0x54 at gmail.com> wrote: > > > either nfs or ocfs2. nfs is the easiest route. ocfs2 will give you a > > clustered filesystem. > > 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. > > 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. > > Well, there is always XenFS... :/ > > -- > Christopher G. Stach II > http://ldsys.net/~cgs/ <http://ldsys.net/%7Ecgs/> > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-virt mailing list > CentOS-virt at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/attachments/20100209/5a725b9d/attachment-0004.html>