[Fedora-xen] Cluster Filesystem like VMware's VMFS?

Pasi Kärkkäinen pasik at iki.fi
Fri Apr 13 07:37:12 UTC 2007


On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 07:12:56PM -0400, Andrew Cathrow wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 21:03 +0200, Christian Reiter wrote:
> 
> > Hi Dan!
> > > Any regular Linux cluster filesystem will do the job. eg GFS, or OCFS2
> > > No need for anything Xen specific.
> > >
> > >   
> > Is the Number of domU-Images limited or can i have as much as i need?
> > There is something in the back of my mind...
> > 
> > BTW:
> > Is there any ClusterFS usable with Fedora out of the Box (RPM)?
> 
> GFS2 is included in the FC6 kernel.
> 

Should you use GFS directly on SAN LUN, or CLVM on SAN LUN, and then GFS on
top of CLVM? Or even only CLVM for domU disks.. 

There seems to be no clear recommendation about that.

I think CLVM only would be the most efficient way.. Filesystem (GFS) is more
complex than just volume manager? 

-- Pasi




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