[ale] Redundant File Servers

Chris Ricker kaboom at gatech.edu
Wed Sep 15 09:17:41 EDT 2004


On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Kevin O'Neill Stoll wrote:

> After some more reading it seems that the OpenGFS project
> is more along the lines of what I was looking for.
> 
> Redhat seems to think the world of their port but if you
> read the author's notes he spends some time pointing out
> its short comings.

OpenGFS is essentially dead. Now that Red Hat's GFS is opened (back) up, all 
the development is going on there instead.

The open source RH GFS for 2.6 kernels is not what I'd characterize as ready
for production use. For a production environment that you care enough about
to cluster and for which you need the sorts of stuff GFS provides, I'd
recommend going with the commercial GFS for 2.4 kernels....

later,
chris



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