Linux Cluster

[Gavin McDonald]

-----Original Message-----
>From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:redhat-list->bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Radu Brumariu
>Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 1:11 PM
>To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
>Subject: Re: Linux Cluster
>
>If you decide to go with the redhat clustering suite, you would need a 
>shared drive ( like a SAN, or iSCSI exported from some 3rd machine ) as 
>the clustering uses raw devices for keeping track of the state of the 
>cluster.
>I was limited to the linux-ha solution due to the lack of hardware. But 
>now that iSCSI becomes supported on RHEL4 it might be a good time to 
>revisit it.
>
>Radu
>
>Greg Golin wrote:
>
>>No.. no special cards. The extra hardware is a UPS and cabling. Also, 
>>depending on what you are serving, you might need a storage device. Please

>>take a look at linux-ha.org <http://linux-ha.org> and here: 
>>http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/csgfs/browse/rh-cs-en/
>>
>>Regards,
>>Greg
>>
>>On 9/1/05, Ignacio Gómez <igomezu at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  
>>
>>>do i need a special card? where can i get this documention?


Would NFS work as the drive sharing medium?  I wonder, since it's layer 4...

-G

Gavin McDonald
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