[ale] Multiple servers, 1 shared disk?

[rramsdell at livedatagroup.com (Randy Ramsdell)]

Robert L. Harris wrote:
>   Has anyone set up a system where one shared disk such as an EMC CX3
> is direct attached via FC and multiple machines access the same file
> system?  Preferably without installing a NAS head on the EMC to share
> out via NFS/CIFS?
>
> Robert
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We do this with iSCSI / Ocfs2  on a six node cluster. It works quite
well, but I would recommend ocfs2 v. 1.2.5 or later. In the later
versions of ocfs2, you can set the network timeout which really helps
keep the cluster safe under heavy load.

Randy Ramsdell