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. -- Trevor Hemsley Infrastructure Engineer ................................................. *C A L Y P S O * Brighton, UK OFFICE +44 (0) 1273 666 350 FAX +44 (0) 1273 666 351 ................................................. www.calypso.com This electronic-mail might contain confidential information intended only for the use by the entity named. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, the reader is hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying is strictly prohibited. *P * /*/Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail /*/
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