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Not sure what you are trying to accomplish, but it seems like a parallel file system like pvfs2 or lustre might be what you are looking for. |
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Larry Lines |
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> From: David Busby <busby@××××××.com> |
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> Subject: [gentoo-cluster] Like Isilon? |
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> Sent: 18 Jul '05 01:56 |
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> I'm certian you all know about Isilon, which effectively makes a big huge data location from many dedicated devices. I |
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> want to do that too, but on Gentoo. My vision of the system is like such: |
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> [ 100Mbit Ethernet Corp. Network ] |
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> [ 2 front end clustered/HA servers ] |
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> This is what the other network hosts will see, I would like have availablility to these servers via netatalk and |
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> samba. I'd make those to boxes to have the same IP with the load balancer in netfilter. They would serve data from the |
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> storage cluster behind them. |
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> [ Gig/Fiber ] |
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> [ n+ backend storage servers. ] |
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> These would be big disk boxes, you know SCSI+RAID5 in the hardware lots of storage space. |
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> These would run Gentoo as well and then I can add/remove nodes in this storage cluster witout down time or data loss. |
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> I'm looking at evms vs gfs. Seems like GFS is closer to what I want than evms, but I don't know. |
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> Also, what about when I buy iSCSI devices or some of those other fancy SAN devices, how can I plug those into the data |
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> servers cluster to use their storage, what package to use? |
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> /djb |
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