Re: Description of the Journaling topology

[David Cuthbert <dacut@xxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     Well, in this scenario A and B would not be doing the journaling, the NFS
>     server would be doing the journaling.   The act of journaling is not 
>     something you run independantly on N machines all sharing the same
>     NFS based filesystem.  That would never work.

Ah, ok.  I thought that's what you were proposing -- journal on A and B. 
 I re-read your message, and you're proposing the journal itself to fly 
over the TCP connection, not journaling locally for filesystems 
connected over TCP.

This freaking cold I have makes reading and thinking difficult. :-)

Dave