Take a look at the XFS file system. My understanding is that it's well suited for the type of environment you described.
You can find a relatively decent description of the more common filesystems here: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=4#doc_chap4 HTH Shawn On Wednesday 18 May 2005 16:48, Dany Allard wrote: > Has anyone over done work with this file system? > http://www.redhat.com/software/rha/gfs/ > > This is pretty much what I am trying to do, without the cluster. > Each of the servers has its own OS fibre drive, then I want to share one > of the SAN partitions across the 5 servers. > > Thanks > > Dany Allard > > Dany Allard wrote: > >Hello everyone > > > > Is it possible to have a shared volume between multiple Linux machines? > > > >Here is what I am trying to do. I have 5 Linux machines hooked up to a > > san. I have 500Gigs of disk that I want to share between all five > > machines. I want the 5 machines to be able to see and access the same > > data on that drive. > >I want be able to increase the size of the drive as needed (I have > >currently configured it as an lvm and it is compromised of 2 "virtual" > >drives of 250Gigs each). > > > >Is this possible without buying additional software?? > > > >I could go with a cluster, but I want to see if I can do it individualy > >(so I can run different versions of Linux). > > > >any input would be appreciated. > > > > Thanks > > > > Dany Allard > > This message, including any attachments, is intended only for the person(s) > to whom it is addressed. If you received it in error, please let us know > and delete the message from your system. This message may be confidential > and may fall under the duty of non-disclosure. Any use by others than the > intended addressee is prohibited. Trema shall not be liable for any damage > related to the electronic transmission of this message, such as failure or > delay of its delivery, interception or manipulation by third parties, or > transmission of viruses or other malicious code. > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
