At 15:34 06/22/2005 +0700, Tracy R Reed wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >Wow: > >http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS3189760067.html > >I have been following Linux storage area networks for a number of years >now. From GFS/SAN/Fibrechannel to iSCSI and now we have AoE. >Fibrechannel was always too expensive, iSCSI so far sounds way too >complicated and designed by committee (target? initiator? huh?), but I >just read about AoE and it sure sounds nice. I may be building some >clusters requiring shared storage in the near future and I think this >might be the way to go (subject to actually trying it out of course). I >have been meaning to play with GFS for years but never had access to >fibrechannel hardware that I could just play with and using it with >firewire has always seemed rather hokey. > >I foresee a day when datacenters consist of a bunch of boxes with gobs >of RAM and really fast CPU's running many instances of Linux under Xen >with all of their disk mounted from really cheap and simple little boxes >like the Via's serving up AoE disk running GFS if the filesystems need >shared read/write access (perfect for a giant mail server cluster) or >just exported raw. > >I really wish I had a Xen box right now. We need at least a dozen >development environments which could easily all be served off of one >physical box but only have 5 boxes to play with and no time to get Xen >working. I actually tried setting it up on one a couple of weeks ago but >ran into some weird problem that I never got resolved.
Fedora Core 4, which was just released last week, has GFS and the Xen modifications already in it. With the Xen kernel, you can have a single machine run multiple instances of itself and test the GFS functionality. Gus -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
