Hello Thomas,

Saturday, March 24, 2007, 1:06:47 AM, you wrote:


>> The problem is that the failure modes are very different for networks and
>> presumably reliable local disk connections.  Hence NFS has a lot of error
>> handling code and provides well understood error handling semantics.  Maybe
>> what you really want is NFS?

TN> We thought about using NFS as backend for as much as possible applications
TN> but we need to have redundancy for the fileserver itself too

Then use Sun Cluster + NFS, both are for free.

Now it won't solve your 'sync' support but maybe you can try: SC + NFS
mounted on clients with directio, UFS on server mounted with directio.

It probably will be really slow, but everythink should be consistent
all the time I guess.


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