[olug] SAN Cluster Filesystem Question

[Curtis LaMasters]

Depending on what your front end application is, Read Only NFS
mounting would be an option if the FC SAN supported that connectivity.

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On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 2:00 PM, dthomas at gmail.com <dthomas at gmail.com> wrote:
> Have you looked at GFS (http://www.redhat.com/gfs/) for block-level sharing
> across a SAN?  AFAIK, it's available open source if you don't want to pay
> for redhat support services.
>
> If you're willing to give up block level access, there's several other
> vendors for this sort of thing (Lustre, Panasas, IBM's GFS).  I'm a couple
> years out of date on this domain, so there may be some new players as well.
>
> -Dan
>
> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Andrew Embury <drazak at ingenii.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have an application for content delivery where I need to allow 10-12
>> Linux
>> based servers access to a single FibreChannel SAN Volume at the block level
>> to distribute content.  I'm familiar with products like Veritas Clustered
>> Storage Filesystem, Quantum's StorNext, and Apple's XSan2 that allow this
>> kind of solution.  My question would be is there any native way in Linux to
>> deliver this type of solution?  The most helpful responses for me would be
>> based on experience as I've already done a fair amount of research via
>> Google.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Drew
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