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From: David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com>
Subject: Re: Incite into reiser5?
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 19:11:26 -0500
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Lexington Luthor wrote:
> David Masover wrote:
> 
>> Don't know about ocfs, I'll look it up later.
>>
>> But, AFAIK, GFS is for things like ATA-over-ethernet, where you have
>> multiple machines attached to the same hard drive -- not for situations
>> where multiple machines each have their own drive, and you want them to
>> appear as one logical drive.
>>
> 
> GFS uses shared storage, but that does not mean it needs to be central.
> 
> I imagine one can use GFS in a cluster of machines where each machine
> shares its drive as a block device, which can be combined using LVM to
> create one giant logical network drive which can be mounted using GFS on
> each machine.

Great -- no load balancing or local caching at all, then?