[Linux-cluster] architecture discussion -- NFS clustering with iSCSI

[Bas van der Vlies]

gordan at bobich.net wrote:
>>>> Also, two more questions:
>>>> 1) What about putting this NFS cluster in VMware?
>>>> 2) I am assuming this would have to be an active-standby model since
>>>> only 1 host can "own" the disk in read/write, correct?
>>> No, the whole point of GFS is that you can have multiple nodes mounting
>>> and using the same volume r/w at the same time.
>>>
>> OK, that makes sense.  My other question is what other filesystems
>> does Red Hat support that can be used in this fashion?  PVFS, OCFS,
>> etc. ?
> 
> By and large, none. GFS is fairly unique in the way it does things. The
> rest of the world hasn't really caught up yet. ;-)
> 
>
That is not really true ;-):

  SGI (Silicon Graphics) has : cxfs
  IBM                        : gpfs

And there are more , but we use also the above ones on our Site.



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