Hello, I have a storage offering some 11 TB of space. I'd happily use ext3 and NFS export to 4 client machines, but 8 TB seems to be the tested maximum. I'd really like one mount point for the whole 11 TB. Since GFS offers lock_nolock option for local mounting, I'm assuming it's not so out of line to NFS export this GFS mount point. Thoughts and inputs appreciated. --Koji
Yanagisawa, Koji wrote:> Hello, > > I have a storage offering some 11 TB of space. I'd happily use ext3 > and NFS export to 4 client machines, but 8 TB seems to be the tested > maximum. I'd really like one mount point for the whole 11 TB. Since > GFS offers lock_nolock option for local mounting, I'm assuming it's not > so out of line to NFS export this GFS mount point.I was planning on doing this (exporting GFS over NFS) at my previous company but left before I got the chance. Red Hat sent me this document last year which seems very informative on the topic http://sources.redhat.com/cluster/doc/nfscookbook.pdf nate
On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 at 10:23pm, Yanagisawa, Koji wrote> Hello, > > I have a storage offering some 11 TB of space. I'd happily use ext3 and NFS > export to 4 client machines, but 8 TB seems to be the tested maximum. I'd > really like one mount point for the whole 11 TB. Since GFS offers > lock_nolock option for local mounting, I'm assuming it's not so out of line > to NFS export this GFS mount point.ext3 in CentOS 5.2 supports up to 16TB volumes. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF