From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 10 02:35:32 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 529DD16A401 for ; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 02:35:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from speedtoys.racing@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.174]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3DDE13C467 for ; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 02:35:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from speedtoys.racing@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 71so66399ugh for ; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 18:35:30 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=pykw0lQrTspqIOeGXrqNNz1wNPb3qz2IMNUGgqPfa1SCE41i2ectuwgziY5d3lI72bodsR5q5NX5s4o+WGvLHr56Crwk/x09mZ49j/D2+6S2+FAipx0fp7gBgtQQ5Tb+y+QX/LaUGcAjU8hncaLoX9glnj9sWmD6QRVabs9Yu2Q= Received: by 10.78.17.4 with SMTP id 4mr5210000huq.1171073449096; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 18:10:49 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.78.17.18 with HTTP; Fri, 9 Feb 2007 18:10:49 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 02:10:49 +0000 From: "Jeff Mohler" To: "Chris Haulmark" In-Reply-To: <6FC9F9894A9F8C49A722CF9F2132FC2204C9DAAE@ms05.mailstreet2003.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <6FC9F9894A9F8C49A722CF9F2132FC2204C9DAAE@ms05.mailstreet2003.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 02:35:32 -0000 ...you format a SAN target with UFS2, nobody else can touch it..think of it as a SATA drive. How many computers can plug into the same SATA drive? If you wanna share, youre looking at NFS somewhere in there. On 2/10/07, Chris Haulmark wrote: > > 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 > 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-fs@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-fs > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-fs-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >