[Linux-cluster] Configuration Between Real Servers and GFS Cluster
Gordan Bobic
gordan at bobich.net
Mon Dec 28 08:50:16 UTC 2009
Diamond Li wrote:
> But my concern is: if I use HA solution, for instance I have 5 GFS
> servers, but only one of them is serving nfs service. That means 1
> server is overloaded, the other are starving in meantime.
>
> Is there any better solutions to make 5 GFS servers provide nfs
> service concurrently?
There is nothing to stop you from having NFS exports run on all of the
nodes simultaneously. Divide up your clients into groups so that each
group mounts a different NFS server, and have the floating IP of the NFS
servers as a fail-over resource.
There are, however, a lot of potential performance issues you will
likely encounter in such a setup (attribute caching on NFS, lock caching
on GFS, etc.).
Gordan
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