From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lexington Luthor Subject: Re: Incite into reiser5? Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 23:08:43 +0100 Message-ID: References: <1125596442.5207.11.camel@jove> <1125685758.9150.8.camel@jove> <43189B26.2030602@slaphack.com> <873bonuurh.fsf@evinrude.uhoreg.ca> <4318AB3B.1090204@slaphack.com> <4318C9E8.80804@slaphack.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <4318C9E8.80804@slaphack.com> Sender: news List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com 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. One could easily set this up with the code currently in the kernel, GFS supports redundancy and multiple journals so reliability is not a problem. LL