Hi James, On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 11:38 PM, jchase <jchase at mandaladesigns.com> wrote: > We currently have a MD3000i with an iSCSI LUN shared out to our apache web > server. We are going to add another apache web server into the mix using LVS > to load balance, however, I am curious how well iSCSI handles file locking > and data integrity. I have the iSCSI partition formatted as ext3. iSCSI is just SCSI protocol over the net and doesn't provide any locking. > Is my setup totally flawed and will ext3 not allow for data integrity with > multiple apache hosts reading/writing to the shared storage? Am I required > to also setup GFS across my apache hosts or does iSCSI somehow manage this? GFS or OCFS2 etc. would be a good idea. Alternatively NFS/CIFS would do. -- Hakan (m1fcj) - http://www.hititgunesi.org