On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 4:36 AM, Nicolas Ross <rossnick-lists at cybercat.ca> wrote: >> Perhaps FreeNAS would fit the bill? >> >> http://freenas.org/features >> > > Thanks for the suggestions (others also), but I don't beleivee it'll do. We > need to be able to access the file system directly via FC so we can lock > files across systems. Pretty much like xSan, but not on apple. xSan is > really StorNext from Qlogic, but half the price per node. So, we are > searching for an alternative to xSan, on linux. > > For those who don't know xSan, you can access a fibre-channel volume > directly, and simultanously among many clients computer or servers. Access, > locking and other tasks are handled by a metadata controler who is > reponsible for keeping things together. No controler, no volume, hence a > failover controler is needed. > > So from what I've read so far, I'll be stuck with StorNext. > > Some nodes have dedicated volumes on the fiber channel network, and I > beleive with what I've read that I could replicate not too difficulty what > we've done with the guid partition and apple lable volumes. > > Thanks, > Nicolas > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Take a look @ Gluster / GlusterFS, it may just do what you need? -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers SoftDux Website: http://www.SoftDux.com Technical Blog: http://Blog.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532