On Tuesday, June 29, 2010 04:53 AM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > On 6/29/10, Karanbir Singh<mail-lists at karan.org> wrote: >> Depends on how you set it up, if you have 2 machines ( disk nodes ), >> exporting iscsi. 1 machine ( data node ) doing the import and sets up a >> raid1; you can afford to have one of those two machines down. You *cant* >> afford to have the data-node down. Thats where the filesystem lives. You >> can potentially have the same disks from the disk-nodes imported to a >> standby data node using something like drbd over the mdraid setup. >> Alternatively, you can look at using a clustered filesystem and have it >> go X way. But then you may as well use something like gnbd with gfs2 >> instead(!). > > Looking up gfs2 was what lead me to glusterFS actually and because > glusterFS had all the RAID stuff pointed out upfront, I stopped > reading about gfs2. Googling gluster then lead to openFiler which then > seemed like a simpler way to achieve the objectives. No acls on Gluster...but I suppose you have no need for acl support...