[Linux-cluster] Fwd: High Available Transparent File System

[Gordan Bobic]

On 10/04/2011 21:40, Meisam Mohammadkhani wrote:
> I'm familiar with Linux and clusters, but actually my knowledge is
> around HPC clusters, not HA clusters. So you are right about the
> "training time", but I will try to handle it ;) According to that Linux
> world has a great open source projects around high availability, file
> systems and so on, that was my suggest to our corporation head masters
> to use these solutions "transparently" for application, may handle some
> parts of application responsibility. I still thinks that using Linux
> solutions can help us transparently and we can handle it with virtual
> machines advantages. So I will appreciate your solutions in Linux world. ;)

The problem you have is that you need concurrent access from Windows 
machines, and that will only work using some kind of a bodge solution 
like application servers accessing the data over Samba backed CIFS shares.

Gordan