Thanks... I googled and played around a bit further after sending the original message. One thing I found was that if I use GFS and manage my own /etc/exports (which I prefer to do), then the clustering is easy as I really only have to have a clustered resource for a virtual IP address. Kevin
________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Zavodsky, Daniel (GE Money) Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 12:52 AM To: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (Tikanga) discussion mailing-list Subject: RE: [rhelv5-list] NFS / CIFS cluster question If you want to use the cluster in an active/passive configuration, then you can even use normal non-clustered LVM, you just have to set-up the cluster accordingly. Or like you said, use CLVM, it is easier to maintain and safer (less prone to admin errors) in a clustered environment. Regards, Daniel ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Collins, Kevin [Beeline] Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 10:54 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [rhelv5-list] NFS / CIFS cluster question I am preparing to build a 2-node cluster to server NFS and CIFS (Samba) to a farm of servers (primarily non-Linux). I have the systems clustered, and CLVM is working fine on my SAN disks. Now it occurs to me that I have 2 ways to do the shared filesystems: 1) Use GFS (which I have no experience with), which allows me to have simultaneous read/write access on all cluster nodes (not really a requirement) 2) Use CLVM, and let the cluster manage who can write to the filesystems (i.e., which node they get mounted on, exported from, etc) Since I am implementing this as an HA cluster, not a load-balancer, do I really care about GFS? Is it simpler to set up an NFS/CIFS cluster with GFS? Only the active node has any reason to ever have write access to the disks. Can someone enlighten me, please? I'm open to opinions, especially fromanyone with experience in doing the same thing. Thanks, Kevin
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