[Users] which file system for shared disk?

Chris Smith whitehat237 at gmail.com
Wed Jul 10 07:23:42 EDT 2013


Why not use gluster with xfs on the storage bricks?

http://www.gluster.org/

On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 7:15 AM, Piotr Szubiakowski
<piotr.szubiakowski at nask.pl> wrote:
> Hi,
> we are developing an application where would be great if multiple host could
> have access to the same disk. I think that we can use features like shared
> disk or direct LUN to attach the same storage to multiple VM's. However to
> provide concurrent access to the resource, there should be a cluster file
> system used. The most popular open source cluster file systems are GFS2 and
> OCFS2. So my questions are:
>
> 1) Does anyone have share disk between VM's in oVirt? What fs did You used?
> 2) Is it possible to use GFS2 on VM's that are running on oVirt? Does anyone
> have run fencing mechanism with ovirt/libvirt?
>
> Many thanks,
> Piotr
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