On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Dan Melomedman wrote:
> I would stay away from NFS at all costs. It simply sucks. I don't care
> how expensive your filer is, it still sucks, sucks, and will always suck
> in my mind for any purpose. Putting a filesystem over a network layer
> for clustering is a design flaw. You never know what bug you'll find next
> in any NFS implementation. Each server in a cluster should be connected
> directly to a redundant shared array. If you can't afford a shared, keep
> a separate small array per server. Sure your management will be more 
> difficult with separate arrays for each server, but at least you'll save 
> yourself any possible NFS headaches. GFS for Linux and shared fiber array
>  is THE solution for a mail cluster, not an NFS box.

I don't wanna spam this mailing list with off-topic discussion ;) Would
you give me some urls where I can read more about sharing the array ?
I know it's possible, but no one around me done this, I've never touched
such a system myself...

-=Czaj-nick=-


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