[CentOS] CentOS MD RAID 1 on Openfiler iSCSI

Tue Mar 1 23:14:29 UTC 2011
Rudi Ahlers <Rudi at SoftDux.com>

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Emmanuel Noobadmin
<centos.admin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/29/10, Christopher Chan <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
>> raid1/iscsi if you have a single host accessing the data or gluster if
>> you have more than one host accessing the data...
>
> This is starting to look really complicated with NCP Storage units on
> zfs -> iscsi to gluster unit ext3 since gluster doesn't do zfs ->
> multiple application host.
>
> Wouldn't using both ncp/zfs with gluster be redundant since gluster
> does cluster storage to begin with?
>
> I think I might be overcomplicating things here.
>
> Reading up more on gluster, it seems that I could simply put a gluster
> client on the application server, mount a volume mirrored on from two
> gluster servers and let gluster handle the failover transparently.
> _______________________________________________


Emmanual,

I'm very interested to find out what happened with this project and
what you ended up doing?


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