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

[gordan at bobich.net]

On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, James McOrmond wrote:

>
> gordan at bobich.net wrote:
>> 
>> 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. ;-)
>
> what exactly does it do that's unique?

I appear to stand corrected as per the other post, with SGI and IBM 
offerings that do similar things, but providing shared r/w access to a 
common physical volume isn't exactly common.

>> I'm not sure why OCFS keeps coming up, since it's not a normal, general 
>> purpose file system. It's only useful for putting Oracle DB volumes on it.
>
> ocfs2 is a general file system and has been available for quite some time 
> (and is very easy to setup).

Fair enough. The documentation I had read on it seemed to imply otherwise, 
which is why I went with GFS. I cannot say that I am in any way regretting 
that choice. :-)

Gordan