Sharing storage on Linux and Solaris
- by devlearn
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,