Alternative to GFS - Cluster Filesystem

[George Magklaras]

GFS is GPLed or is freely available as far as we are concerned. We have 
been running GFS volume on Fedora 10 systems for free. The thing I have 
to say though is that if you desire a *stable* cluster system, I 
recommend the RHEL version.

Alternatives to GFS are the Lustre FS 
(http://wiki.lustre.org/index.php/Main_Page      now under Oracle I 
believe) and Gluster 
(http://www.gluster.com/community/documentation/index.php/GlusterFS).

I have played a bit with Lustre and it works but is a PAIN to setup and 
administer in terms of complexity.

Oracle is promoting also OCFS ( http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs/) 
geared towards large RDBMS systems.

I hope this helps

GM




Danilo Fantinato wrote:
> I need to use a partition cluster filesystem, on Redhat Enterprise GFS is
> paid.
> I want a free solution for cluster partition.
> 
> Thanks
> Danilo
> 
> 2009/10/1 George Magklaras <georgios at biotek.uio.no>
> 
>> Is there any particular reason why you are searching for a GFS alternative?
>> (are there any issues you want to address)?
>>
>>
>> Danilo Fantinato wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I need to mount a volume of a storage of two servers simultaneously using
>>> HBA.
>>> My initial idea is to use GFS. Is there a safe alternative to cluster
>>> filesystem ?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
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George Magklaras BSc Hons MPhil
RHCE:805008309135525

Senior Computer Systems Engineer/UNIX-Linux Systems Administrator
EMBnet Technical Management Board
The Biotechnology Centre of Oslo,
University of Oslo
http://folk.uio.no/georgios

Tel: +47-22840535

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