Provide Robust Clustered Storage with Linux and GFS (EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet)

[Posted April 6, 2009 by cook]

Charlie Schluting explains GFS configuration in an EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet article. "Load balancing is difficult; often we need to share file systems via NFS or other mechanisms to provide a central location for the data. While you may be protected against a Web server node failure, you are still sharing fate with the central storage node. Using GFS, the free clustered file system in Linux, you can create a truly robust cluster that does not depend on other servers. In this article, we show you how to properly configure GFS."