[Linux-cluster] a basic question

[Patrick Caulfield]

Giovanni Bracco wrote:
> I have a cluster of 20 opteron dual core dual processors with spare disk space 
> on each of the 20 nodes.
> 
> I would like to configure a cluster file system using all the 20 available 
> disk partitions, one on each of the cluster nodes.
> 
> Is GFS suitable?
> 
> In other words, a host can be a server and a client to gfs at the same time?
> 


No. you need shared storage for GFS.

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patrick