[Linux-cluster] GFS Storage cluster !!!!

[Jonathan Brassow]

If you have more than one machine, you could export a portion of you  
local hard drive to the other machines.  You would then be able to  
test as if you had a SAN.  GNBD/iSCSI can provide this capability.

  brassow

On Apr 25, 2008, at 5:47 AM, Sutton, Harry (MSE) wrote:

> Hi Vimal,
>
> You can configure a single node to use a GFS filesystem, but you  
> must use manual locking, something you definitely wouldn't do on a  
> multi-node production cluster.
>
>   /Harry
>
> Vimal Gupta wrote:
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> I want a storage cluster of 3 Nodes.But  I want to test first. So for
>> Testing I have one quad CPU server with CentOS 5.1. I don't have a  
>> SAN
>> now . Can I configure this server as a one node cluster and use its  
>> one
>> scsi HDD as GFS. Just for testing . (may be this is a stupid  
>> question).
>>
>>
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