[Gllug] Filesystem available to both windows and linux

[tid]

Hi Tim,

The Windows and Linux machines are used for a mixture of web frontends
(apache ) and transcoding - ffmpeg for linux and some antiquated
commercial software on windows. They pass information between
themselves about file paths on the Infortrend. I'm keen to move away
from a single iSCSI target but nervous about drbd, due to a previous
finger-burning exercise, but will look into ocfs2 & gfs2 - Any ideas
on likely costs? I notice I have to talk nicely to RedHat for gfs2...

Anyone else using these in anger?

Tid

On 29 March 2012 22:44, Tim Hughes <thughes at thegoldfish.org> wrote:
> Hi Tid,
>
> This depends on the use case. What are the Linux and windows servers
> currently used for and what are the infortrend machines capable of. If they
> only do iscsi and each mount needs to be accessed by multiple servers then
> NFS is a reasonable choice for its ease of use. Another option which ups the
> complexity a bit but removes the need for the intermediate Linux server to
> change the protocol would be to use a cluster filesystem. There are several
> out there to choose from such as ocfs2 or gfs2.
>
> Tim Hughes
>
> On Mar 29, 2012 9:41 PM, "tid" <td at bloogaloo.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Where I'm currently working, the storage environment has *ahem* 'grown
>> organically' and there are a couple
>> of infortrend iSCSI NAS boxes serving up storage to 2 linux servers,
>> which then export these filesystems
>> as samba shares to a mixture of linux and windows servers. Yes, you
>> read that right. Linux to linux samba
>> shares. I'm looking for a better solution, and given that the windows
>> servers will eventually go away, am
>> wondering what my options are. I could just go for straight NFS
>> mounts, but will be serving small amounts
>> of video so am wondering if there is a better solution ...
>>
>> Any suggestions gratefully received.
>>
>> Tid
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