*Useful information from Greg: From: *Greg Freemyer* <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 12:27 PM To: Peter Teoh <[email protected]>
**On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 9:26 PM, Peter Teoh <[email protected]> wrote: > just a a question: > > i am interested in sharing my ext3 fs (or raw disk without fs) over the > network with other linux machine, but would not like to use NFS or CIFS...do > u know of any solutions? > * *For raw you can use iSCSI or NBD (nbd.sourceforge.net). Or ultra leading edge, Mark Lord said he is working on a SATA target mode driver. That would allow you to export drives as native sata. Very cool, but I don't think the code exists yet and it requires specific hardware. I guess you could setup drbd in a degraded mode as well. I would avoid that unless you want to eventually implement both halves. None of the above is active-active. ie. Only one client at a time and you have to ensure you sync between clients. Of course there are a number of cluster filesystems. I think they can all export a filesystem to another node. I can think of: ocfs2, gfs, cfs, lustre as all being opensource. (lots more commercial). Greg * * -- Regards, Peter Teoh *
