[Linux-cluster] GFS, DLM & RH-Cluster Suite

Patricio Bruna V pbruna at linuxcenterla.com
Fri Mar 25 23:34:27 UTC 2005


El vie, 25-03-2005 a las 08:12 +0000, Graham Wood escribió:

> In theory, the cluster software should work over any link.  Running ppp 
> over the serial link, and/or usbnet, should be sufficient.  However, you 
> will probably have to play with the timeout & other settings to get them 
> to work over such a slow link.  It's also going to be incredibly slow to 
> do anything.
> 
> If you're looking to use GFS (and don't have any shared storage) then 
> you're going to have to use some method of faking that (GNBD, or 
> similar) which will send more data over the "connection" too, and is 
> likely to overload it if you're doing anything at all to the filesystem.
I do have a shared storage.

> If you've got spare PCI slots, I'd SERIOUSLY recommend getting a pair of 
> really cheap network cards & a crossover cable - they're relatively 
> cheap these days, and here would probably be about the same cost in 
> total as a USB<->USB cable!
i dont have any slot to use.
the other thing i can do, its tha machine comunicates throw the lan
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