jchase 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. ... it doesn't, not even close. iscsi is purely a block device protocol, it doesn't know what files are. > 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? NFS would be more suitable for this application.