[olug] SAN Cluster Filesystem Question

Andrew Embury drazak at ingenii.com
Wed May 20 19:11:41 UTC 2009


I had not looked at that, and it looks to be exactly what I need, and GPLed
too.  Thanks for the help.

Drew

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 years out of date on this domain, so there may be some new players as well.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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