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I've been researching GFS for a few years now, back when it was sponsored by Sistina. I think I'm finally at a point that I could use it, and I wanted to see if it was at a point that it would be useful for me. Admittedly I don't understand a lot of the low level details of how the FS works. So I don't really follow most of the bug details. What I would like to do is have 4 nodes all serving SMTP, POP, FTP, etc (standard ISP services) that read/write to a central data store, Compaq SAN MSA1000 device. Basically, all user data will be stored there, and I'll load balance across the 4 machines. My main questions are: Will the performance be good/bad/ugly enough for a moderate number (say 25-50 simultaneous) reads/writes from each node? I read and followed most of the HOWTO on the no-pool, since I don't want a single lock server. Is that feature ready for a production environment? Should a node die, with open files, will ogfs eventually release the locks so that other nodes can access the file? How long before the locks get released? I'm also investigating purchasing GFS from Sistina, but if ogfs will accomplish the job, then why not. Thanks all. -- David A. Niblett | email: niblettda@gru.net Network Administrator | Phone: (352) 334-3400 Gainesville Regional Utilities | Web: http://www.gru.net/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: eBay Get office equipment for less on eBay! http://adfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/711-11697-6916-5 _______________________________________________ Opengfs-users mailing list Opengfs-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opengfs-users