Ubuntu and GFS?

[Jim Richardson]

On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 09:50 -0400, Jonathan Hirschman wrote:
> Mario Vukelic wrote:
> > On Sun, 2007-09-30 at 19:29 -0700, Twist O'Connor wrote:
> >   
> >> GFS????? well i have dual vista and ubuntu i think with umm whatever
> >> the software is that lets you duel boot will work with any 2 or more
> >> OS
> >>     
> >
> > You mean grub. He means GFS
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_File_System
> >
> >   
> Quite correct. I mean GFS, not grub.
> 
> I just got OCFS2 working across two nodes and shared firewire disk. Kind 
> of cool, actually. GFS is not fun, still would appreciate any pointers.
> 
> jh
> 

Well, it's not GFS and it's not Ubuntu :) But we have started looking at
glusterFS for a centos cluster at work. Replication, self healing,
unified name space etc. so far, so good. Although I need to do some more
work on the test cluster to get the performance up to NFS levels. I'd
recommend looking into it for shared FS work, it's looking quite
promising for us, and the devs are responsive on IRC and via
mail/mailing list. 

It's quite easy to set up also, good documentation at the home url,
http://www.gluster.org/docs/index.php/GlusterFS


Maybe not what you are looking for, but worth a look if you want
something "more" than NFS.

-- 
Jim Richardson <warlock at eskimo.com>
Erisian Claw