On 6/26/2013 2:54 PM, David Parker wrote: > As you both pointed out, it > would be easier and safer to use a clustered filesystem instead of NFS for > this project. I'll check out GlusterFS, it looks like a great option.
It may be worth clarification to note GlusterFS is not a cluster filesystem. It is a distributed filesystem. There is a significant difference between clustered and distributed. A distributed filesystem such as Gluster is applicable to your needs as you can add/remove clients in an ad hoc manner without issue. A cluster filesystem is probably not suitable, because you simply can't connect new nodes in a willy nilly fashion. None of OCFS, GFS, GPFS, CXFS, etc handle this very well, if at all. Cluster filesystems require hardware fencing between nodes. One doesn't setup hardware fencing willy nilly. -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51cb57d6.20...@hardwarefreak.com
