Re: [CentOS] iSCSI / GFS shared web server file system

2010-04-27 Thread James
> Web servers are mostly read-only, so unless your web servers are going > to do a lot of writing to shared storage I would simply use rsync to a > local disk in each server, or use NFS, even NFS and heartbeat for > redundancy will be 100 times simpler to setup and maintain. > > GFS/OCFS2/Gluster/

Re: [CentOS] iSCSI / GFS shared web server file system

2010-04-24 Thread Ross Walker
On Apr 23, 2010, at 1:00 PM, James wrote: > >> http://sources.redhat.com/cluster/doc/nfscookbook.pdf >> >> I think it'd be much easier if you just replicate the data between >> the servers with rsync or something. GFS sounds like way overkill >> for a couple of web servers. >> > Maybe you're righ

Re: [CentOS] iSCSI / GFS shared web server file system

2010-04-23 Thread James
> http://sources.redhat.com/cluster/doc/nfscookbook.pdf > > I think it'd be much easier if you just replicate the data between > the servers with rsync or something. GFS sounds like way overkill > for a couple of web servers. > Maybe you're right that GFS would be overkill -- I know you have t

Re: [CentOS] iSCSI / GFS shared web server file system

2010-04-23 Thread Hakan Koseoglu
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Geoff Galitz wrote: > OCSF2 over iSCSI is a good option to look at, too.  There is also gluster. > But NFS is going to be the mainstream approach with the best support and > administration options unless the OP is running into some technical > limitations. I have a

Re: [CentOS] iSCSI / GFS shared web server file system

2010-04-23 Thread Geoff Galitz
> my impression is GFS requires shared storage, I believe there > are ways around it, but take a look at this for setting up GFS > for use with NFS iSCSI provides the basic foundation needed by GFS for shared storage, so the OP is good for that. GFS, however, is not exactly a simple technology t

Re: [CentOS] iSCSI / GFS shared web server file system

2010-04-22 Thread nate
James wrote: > That was my impression from reading through the docs anyways. I've never > set it up. my impression is GFS requires shared storage, I believe there are ways around it, but take a look at this for setting up GFS for use with NFS http://sources.redhat.com/cluster/doc/nfscookbook.pdf

Re: [CentOS] iSCSI / GFS shared web server file system

2010-04-22 Thread James
On 4/22/2010 6:51 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > jchase wrote: > >> We currently have a MD3000i with an iSCSI LUN shared out to our apache >> web server. We are going to add another apache web server into the mix >> using LVS to load balance, however, I am curious how well iSCSI >> handles file loc

Re: [CentOS] iSCSI / GFS shared web server file system

2010-04-22 Thread Hakan Koseoglu
Hi James, On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 11:38 PM, jchase wrote: > We currently have a MD3000i with an iSCSI LUN shared out to our apache web > server. We are going to add another apache web server into the mix using LVS > to load balance, however, I am curious how well iSCSI handles file locking > and

Re: [CentOS] iSCSI / GFS shared web server file system

2010-04-22 Thread John R Pierce
jchase wrote: > We currently have a MD3000i with an iSCSI LUN shared out to our apache > web server. We are going to add another apache web server into the mix > using LVS to load balance, however, I am curious how well iSCSI > handles file locking and data integrity. ... it doesn't, not even c

[CentOS] iSCSI / GFS shared web server file system

2010-04-22 Thread jchase
We currently have a MD3000i with an iSCSI LUN shared out to our apache web server. We are going to add another apache web server into the mix using LVS to load balance, however, I am curious how well iSCSI handles file locking and data integrity. I have the iSCSI partition formatted as ext3. I