Re: distributed filesystem for backup

[Andrew Miehs <andrew@2sheds.de>]

A friend of mine is running GFS on Debian Sarge. You just need to add  
the patches to the kernel. (Using a kernel org kernel).

If you can not afford a SAN, you could possibly look at doing it with  
something like iscsi.

Cheers

Andrew

On 10/09/2006, at 12:31 PM, Wojciech Ziniewicz wrote:

> I have 16 nodes gfs cluster for it built on GFS but afaik GFS is
> stable and usable only for red hat (for other distros there's openGFS
> which is imho different ) . Setting it up took me 2 days on Quality
> Assurance and one day on production . There's a very robust way of
> managing the cluster and whole software is very very nice ;) One thing
> that's rather expensive is fiberchannel SAN that is important when
> using GFS .. i found no other way to set it up that with EVA (or other
> SAN with FC) with one exported logical volume for 16 machines
> connected to it with brocade Fiber Channel switch ... but
> effectiveness of such thing is very big ;)