Re: Distributed Filesystem
From: Neil Horman (nhorman_at_rNeOdShPaMt.com)
Date: 12/10/03
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Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 15:57:14 -0500
Mangled&Munged wrote:
> "Christian Kier" <nospam@irgendwann.org> wrote in message
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>>Hi,
>>
>>I'd like to use the unused space on harddisks of some linux and solaris
>>machines here around.
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>>The best solution for me would be a server managing several real volumes
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> as
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>>one logical volume. These real volumes would correspond to partitions or
>>files on the machines which are offered to the server.
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>>The server would also take some redundancy into account. Quasi like a RAID
>>but with the disks on different computers.
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>>The Home directories I move onto the logical (distributed) volume where
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> they
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>>are mounted by the clients as hitherto by autofs+NFS.
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>>Is this a reasonable solution?
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>>Are there any filesystems and tools to make this solution work?
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>>Thanks for answers,
>>/Christian
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> For the Linux boxen, there be Lustre.
> See: http://www.clusterfs.com
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> Enjoy,
> Mangled&Munged
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>
Yeah, thats a really cool filesystem. I think it takes a _bunch_ of
machines to do anything really worthwhile though.
-- Neil Horman Red Hat, Inc., http://people.redhat.com/nhorman gpg keyid: 1024D / 0x92A74FA1, http://www.keyserver.net
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