[Lxc-users] Cluster filesystem?

Ulli Horlacher framstag at rus.uni-stuttgart.de
Mon Oct 8 15:00:34 UTC 2012


On Mon 2012-10-08 (10:32), Papp Tamas wrote:
> On 10/08/2012 09:47 AM, Ulli Horlacher wrote:
> 
> > Are there recommendations on cluster filesystems?
> > I have several hosts with fibre channel. They should use a common
> > filesystem to have a half-automatic fail-over.
> 
> I think you should be able to use any of the cluster FS (eg. gluster, 
> moosefs, GFS... etc.)

"should" - I prefer recommendations ny experience :-)

I have tried by myself gluster and it is HORRIBLE slow.
With GFS I have heard of several fatal crashes with data corruption.


> BTW I would rather use just pure volume's from the storage with ext4 and 
> set MMP (multiple mount protection) on the fs.

What is MMP?

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