From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 10 01:42:30 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2E7816A40B for ; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 01:42:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@sigd.net) Received: from ms05.mailstreet2003.net (ms05.mailstreet2003.net [69.25.50.235]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3CDD13C4A8 for ; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 01:42:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@sigd.net) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 20:30:26 -0500 Message-ID: <6FC9F9894A9F8C49A722CF9F2132FC2204C9DAAE@ms05.mailstreet2003.net> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: UFS2 with SAN Thread-Index: AcdMswv23r5T5CpjSPaH7LuLUiC+JA== From: "Chris Haulmark" To: Subject: UFS2 with SAN X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 01:42:31 -0000 Hello, I am looking into setting up a SAN with several web servers that will be clustered. It would be a FC network using Qlogic cards in each of those FreeBSD web servers. It would be about 5+ of those web servers. I want to have the capability to share the same web data across those web servers. I have scorched the entire mailing list and=20 found that there were some work on GFS porting over to FreeBSD. It seems like that it is just all talk and if I am wrong, could you have my head turned over to where I can find out how to enable GFS on those FreeBSD systems. If GFS is out of question, which file system am I recommendeded to attempt to use for this SAN setup? My first thought to use UFS2 and attempt is to allow only one web server to have a write/read access while the reminder would be read only access. That should prevent from lockings that is similar on NFS/NAS. Chris