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