On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 15:32 -0500, Nicolas Ross wrote: > > Have you looked at Red Hat's GFS? That seems to fit at least a portion of > > your needs (I don't use it, so I don't know all that it does). > > I've spent better part of the last day to read documentation on gfs2 on > redhat's site. > > My god, that's pretty much what I'm looking for... To the point that I'll > probably be ordering a pair of intel 1u rack servers, 2 lsi fibre channel > card and a fiber switch to begin experimenting with this... > > The documentation is very technichal, I'm ok with that, but it seems to miss > some starting point. For instance, there's a part about the required number > of journal to create and the size of those. But I cannot find suggested size > or any thumb-rule for those... > > That made my day ;-) ---- http://sources.redhat.com/cluster/doc/nfscookbook.pdf Will give you a better view than the Docs them self will. It centers on NFS but the thing is, it is the basic principles that it has in whole. John