Greetings, On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 1:28 AM, yvette hirth <yve...@dbtgroup.com> wrote:
> hi, > > once SCST is running, then i plan on having FOO present one LUN each for > three raid arrays to the two desktops. array0 will be shared by FOO and > DT0; array1 will be shared by FOO and DT1; and array2 will be shared by FOO, > DT0 and DT1. > > the scenario for my question is this: > will a "non-clustered" filesystem like ext3 / xfs be sufficient? i can't > use zfs because this is FCP SCSI not iSCSI. > NO You will require GFS / 2 in which case you will need Centos/RHEL cluster infrastructure > > i've looked at OPEN-E, OpenFiler (which has a 64-bit version that doesn't > like HP DL380 G6's), DataCore and tons more and all fall short or failed the > install. > > > we could certainly go iSCSI (which seems to be a trend), but we've invested > some non-trivial budget in 8gbps FCP and don't feel it's antiquidated just > yet. > ISCSI presents LUNs For concurrent access from multiple nodes to the same filesystem a clustered filesystem like GFS/OCFS/HPFS _will_ be required or of course you can go the NFS way. my 0.02 Regards Rajagopal
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