We're going to drop reiserfs and lvm from our tests. OpenAFS isn't supported on SLES 10 SP1.
So we'll compare NFS (v3 and v4) EVMS XFS and Ext3 with OCFS2 and EVMS ¿Who will win? I guest better .performance with first one, nfs. I think we need EVMS because we want to create a big logical volume with smaller ocfs2 volumes, doing striping and multipath (with PAVs). I don't know exacty if ocfs2 supports aggregation of "physical" volumes on logical volumes. Also is interesting IBM General Parallel File System, but mysteriously it isn't supported on zLinux. My colleagues are going to implement it on AIX. It's not free, but it includes volume aggregation and file system, so it's a closed solution. We have to set a larger MTU (i.e. 8992) on servers and clients both. I don't known if I have to setup something in VM. Another project is a file server in this zLinux environment, serving to a lot windows clients (maybe thosands). I think the one and only solution is Samba. I've seen in: http://www.red-hat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-AS-2.1-Manual/cluster-manager/s1-service-samba.html that high availability with load balancing is possible. I don't know if Novell supports it in Suse. Thank you very much. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
