Sharing storage on Linux and Solaris

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Published on 2012-10-01T23:47:01Z Indexed on 2012/10/02 3:43 UTC
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I'm looking for a solution in order to share a san mounted volume between several hosts running on Linux (RHEL) and/or Solaris (Sparc).

Note that I basically need to share a set of directories containing large binary files that are accessed in random R/W mode.

I have the following reqs :

keep the data on the SAN
suitable i/o performances as the software is pretty demanding on IOPS
stick to a shared file system as I can't afford a cluster fs (lack of MDS/OSS infrastructure)
compression could be really usefull

For now I've found only the following candidates :

GFS2 , supports Linux only, no compression
VxFS , supports Linux and Solaris, compression supported

So if you have some suggestions for this list, I'll really welcome them.

Thanks in advance,

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