Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 02:10:49 +0000 From: "Jeff Mohler" <speedtoys.racing@gmail.com> To: "Chris Haulmark" <chris@sigd.net> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UFS2 with SAN Message-ID: <a969fbd10702091810w798cc3f6p1fbe187e14bd4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <6FC9F9894A9F8C49A722CF9F2132FC2204C9DAAE@ms05.mailstreet2003.net> References: <6FC9F9894A9F8C49A722CF9F2132FC2204C9DAAE@ms05.mailstreet2003.net>
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...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 <chris@sigd.net> 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" >
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