[Linux-cluster] a basic question

Mustafa A. Hashmi mahashmi at gmail.com
Tue Jul 4 15:32:05 UTC 2006


On 7/4/06, Patrick Caulfield <pcaulfie at redhat.com> wrote:
> Giovanni Bracco wrote:
> > I have a cluster of 20 opteron dual core dual processors with spare disk space
> > on each of the 20 nodes.
> >
> > I would like to configure a cluster file system using all the 20 available
> > disk partitions, one on each of the cluster nodes.
> >
> > Is GFS suitable?
> >
> > In other words, a host can be a server and a client to gfs at the same time?
> >
>
>
> No. you need shared storage for GFS.

Won't gnbd exports work here?

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