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Re: [ogfs-users]RE NFS Mount



On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 13:46, Hugo Samayoa wrote:
> I meant targets and yes I'm using LVM2. I'll give the user space nfs
> server a try thanks.
> 
Then why do you need opengfs?  It is for managing multiple directly
connected servers.

If you are only going to have one server with multiple iSCSI/hyperSCSI
targets, LVM2 is all you need.

Greg

On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 10:20, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 19:41, Hugo Samayoa wrote:
> > >  > Just curious, if there"s only one (filesystem server) node, why do you
> > > > need a clustered filesystem such as OpenGFS?
> > > Later on when we add more storage I want to add another iSCSI target or HyperSCSI target to the mix. Then export everything via one filesystem 
> > > 
> > Did you mean initiators?
> > 
> > I may be confused, but I think iSCSI targets just act like disk drives,
> > or FC LUNs.  OpenGFS is not really needed to manage adding in extra
> > targets/drives/LUNs.
> > 
> > In fact, OpenGFS would require EVMS or Pool to manage all the multiple
> > targets/drives/LUNs.
> > 
> > If your not using ogfs, you could also use LVM1 or LVM2.
> > 
> > If you do need to use ogfs, I would consider using the User Space
> > implementation of the nfs server.
> > 
> > I would think that using the kernel space implementation is much more
> > likely to have bugs.
> > 
> > HTH
> > Greg
> 
> 
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