On 04/11/2010 13:05, Win Htin wrote:
>> Why use GFS in a read-heavy environment?  Why not use plain old NFS?
> It is neither READ nor WRITE heavy. The app binaries will be loaded
> and stay there till the end of the day. Do not want to go NFS route
> since the NFS server is single point of failure.

We use DRBD/Heartbeat/NFS for exactly this purpose. Make sure you mount
your NFS filesystems with the udp option and failover from one machine
to the other is transparent.

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