[Linux-cluster] Need some advice about gfs or gfs2

[Bas van der Vlies]

David Teigland wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 05:34:16PM +0100, Bas van der Vlies wrote:
>> Our plan is to setup some nodes with GFS that export their filesystem as 
>>  NFS to our (640) clients. I read the kernel archives and some other 
>> discussion about gfs and gfs2. The version that maybe included in the
>> vanilla kernel will be gfs2 and is incompatible with gfs filesystems.
>>
>> I now have the time to make an decission gfs or gfs2. So i need some 
>> advice which version to choose?
>>
>> I have build gfs CVS stable without any problems. Gfs2 is another story 
>> till now i did not succeed. I am using debian sarge for this moment. 
>> Another question is when will gfs2 be included in the red-hat cluster suite?
> 
> Use GFS(1) which is stable.  GFS2 is still in development, it won't be
> ready for general use for quite a while.
> 

Dave,

  Thanks a lot for your advice.

Regards


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