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From: Brian Tinsley <btinsley@emageon.com>
To: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>
Cc: Lorn Kay <lorn_kay@hotmail.com>,
	 nfs@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-ha@muc.de
Subject: Re: NFS as a Cluster File System.
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2003 17:09:02 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E1E010E.4020902@emageon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20030109215019.GN2437@marowsky-bree.de

Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:

>On 2003-01-09T19:39:50,
>   Lorn Kay <lorn_kay@hotmail.com> said:
>
>>Is NFS a viable CFS? (I'm cross posting this due to a discussion on the the linux-ha list recently.)
>>    
>>
>NFS might be a viable system for making content available in a cluster, given a highly available NFS sever (not that easy to do right, actually) and provided that the bandwidth and latency is good enough for you; file locking might also be a problem.
>
There are numerous threads in the NFS mailing list archives (and 
probably in the NFS HOWTO - it's been quite a while since I've read it) 
on how to set up a HA NFS cluster. Yes, there are quite a few pitfalls 
to watch for and some applications may not behave well in this 
configuration, but it's definitely achievable.

>However, it is NOT a "CFS", which people commonly use to refer to a filesystem which is distributed and usually shares the same storage system connected to all nodes.
>
Yes, good clarification.




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  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-09 23:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-09 19:39 NFS as a Cluster File System Lorn Kay
2003-01-09 21:11 ` Brian Tinsley
2003-01-09 22:04   ` Brian Jackson
2003-01-09 23:02     ` Brian Tinsley
2003-01-09 21:29 ` Alan Robertson
2003-01-13 19:36   ` Neil Brown
2003-01-13 20:25     ` David B. Ritch
2003-01-13 20:40       ` Neil Brown
2003-01-13 20:50         ` David B. Ritch
2003-01-13 22:11           ` Neil Brown
2003-01-14 15:46     ` Trond Myklebust
2003-01-14 16:01       ` Kumaran Rajaram
2003-01-14 16:08         ` Trond Myklebust
2003-01-09 21:50 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2003-01-09 23:09   ` Brian Tinsley [this message]
2003-01-13  4:20 ` David B. Ritch
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-01-09 23:13 Lorn Kay
2003-01-10  3:34 ` Alan Cox

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