[gpfsug-discuss] Small cluster

[Sven Oehme]

the question is what difference does it make ?
as i mentioned if all your 2 or 3 nodes do is serving NFS it doesn't matter
if the protocol nodes or the NSD services are down in both cases it means
no access to data which it makes no sense to separate them in this case
(unless load dependent).
i haven't seen nodes reboot specifically because of protocol issues lately,
the fact that everything is in userspace makes things easier too.

sven

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From:	Zachary Giles <zgiles at gmail.com>
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Date:	03/06/2016 02:31 AM
Subject:	Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Small cluster
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Sven,
What about the stability of the new protocol nodes vs the old cNFS? If you
remember, back in the day, cNFS would sometimes have a problem and reboot
the whole server itself. Obviously this was problematic if it's one of the
few servers running your cluster. I assume this is different now with the
Protocol Servers?


On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 1:40 PM, Marc A Kaplan <makaplan at us.ibm.com> wrote:
  Indeed it seems to just add overhead and expense to split what can be
  done by one node over two nodes!


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