Jf, At first your popularity went up real high as I read about gpfs - great concept, scalable, fast and powerful. But then I looked at pricing and cost - this is where your popularity rating took a huge dip :).
I've yet to see the real numbers, but I find it questionable that it's going to be free or reasonably priced. -ilya -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jan-Frode Myklebust Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 11:25 AM To: Krzysztof Mazurek Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [rhelv6-list] GFS2 File System maximum size On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 11:16:36AM +0100, Krzysztof Mazurek wrote: > > What is the recommended way of doing so large FS ? > Not sure how popular I'll be now, but I would recommend looking at IBM's GPFS. I don't think you will find any cluster-fs that's more stable/mature and easy to set up / work with. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPFS For HA you can use pure quorum nodes (if you have more than 2 nodes), or quorum-nodes + tiebreaker disk if you have only 2 nodes and want to still be up when one node is unavailable. GPFS will stripe your filesystem over all the LUNs you give it, so you can have many small or few large LUNs on your arrays. You can also easily grow or shrink your fs by adding/removing LUNs without downtime. -jf Disclaimer: Working for IBM, but have no other reason to promote GPFS than years of positive experience both before and after joining IBM. _______________________________________________ rhelv6-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list _______________________________________________ rhelv6-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list
