[TriLUG] SAN file locking

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Mon, 19 Dec 2011, Andrew Blum wrote:

> I think what might help is to understand zoning:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibre_Channel_zoning

thanks

> On an aside but related to this thread.  There might be an 
> alternative to consider to your SAN vs NFS server storage 
> options.  Check out GlusterFS ( 
> http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Main_Page) 
> which presents a single NFS share (or client GlusterFS) 
> but from distributed servers on a per file (rather than 
> block) basis.

there's not a lot of info on how gluster works here or in 
wikipedia. However through wikipedia and distributed 
filesystems I got to a description of MooseFS (with a name 
like that, it has to be great)

http://www.moosefs.org/

which has separate metadata servers. There has to be a bit 
of work writing one of these things.

Joe

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