[Linux-cluster] A few GFS newbie questions: journals, etc

Patrick Caulfield pcaulfie at redhat.com
Thu Jun 30 19:10:26 UTC 2005


Jon Scottorn wrote:
> The reason why I am not worried about data integrity is because the
> nodes accessing the data are not accessing the same spots on the
> filesystem.
> 
> ie..   storage server has the data.
>    node 1 accesses gfs mount/some_dir
>    node 2 accesses gfs mount/some_other_dir
>    node 3 accesses gfs mount/yet_some_other_dir
> 

That is still no guarantee against total filesystem corruption.

Patrick




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