UFS2 with SAN

[Jeff Mohler]

...you format a SAN target with UFS2, nobody else can touch it..think of it
as a SATA drive.

How many computers can plug into the same SATA drive?


If you wanna share, youre looking at NFS somewhere in there.

On 2/10/07, Chris Haulmark <chris at sigd.net> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am looking into setting up a SAN with several web servers that
> will be clustered.  It would be a FC network using Qlogic cards
> in each of those FreeBSD web servers.  It would be about 5+
> of those web servers.
>
> I want to have the capability to share the same web data across
> those web servers.  I have scorched the entire mailing list and
> found that there were some work on GFS porting over to FreeBSD.
> It seems like that it is just all talk and if I am wrong, could
> you have my head turned over to where I can find out how to enable
> GFS on those FreeBSD systems.
>
> If GFS is out of question, which file system am I recommendeded
> to attempt to use for this SAN setup?
>
> My first thought to use UFS2 and attempt is to allow only one web
> server to have a write/read access while the reminder would be
> read only access. That should prevent from lockings that is similar
> on NFS/NAS.
>
> Chris
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