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On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Lorn Kay wrote:
The 'real' way of doing this is with a netfiler (www.netapp.com) You can
build a configuration which is rock solid. We have a netfiler 720 (200
Gigs, US$35,000) which is just awesome sitting behind our cluster.
-Matt
> juri.haberland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> >I doubt that drbd, nbd or enbd will help you here because they are >just
> >distributed block devices on which you have to set a filesystem like
> ext2.
> >But ext2 or any other common FS can only be mounted on one node (rw).
> >Sure, you can mount it one one node rw and on the other one ro - but
> >that other one will never see changes because of caching.
>
> >What you really need is something like NFS or GFS which can be >mounted
> >rw on several nodes.
> >
> >juri
>
> But NFS does not help with redundancy does it? What if the NFS server goes
> down?
>
> -K
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