Regarding GFS (was: redhat-list Digest, Vol 96, Issue 1)

[(Imed Chihi) عماد الشيحي]

Hi,

You will need to make sure whether you are referring to Red Hat GFS or
IBM GFPS as those are very different technologies.  The following will
assume Red Hat GFS.

GFS does not protect against disk failure.  It does, however,
contribute to protecting against node failure.  In order not to turn
the thread into a GFS course, I'd suggest you ask precise questions
and we shall formulate replies.

Good luck,

 -Imed


2012/2/5  <redhat-list-request at redhat.com>:
> Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 14:54:37 -0500
> From: unix syzadmin <unixsyzadmin at gmail.com>
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list at redhat.com>
> Subject: Regarding GFS
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> Hi,
>
> I have not worked on GFS before, but i am given additional resposibilities
> to support the existing GFS clusters and model the news ones after them.
>
> While I am currently going through the redhat documentation; I wanted
> explore other avenues for quick help on precisely documenting how the
> existing GPFS clusters are setup.
>
> The current setup has 3 Linux nodes running RHEL4 Update 7, all of them are
> allocated the same storage and access to the same GFS file-systems.
>
> I am not sure if this is setup like a cluster and if can sustain a disk or
> a node failure.
>
> Please point or suggest me in the right direction.
>
> Thanks.

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