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If you test it on Gentoo post the ebuild here and on bugs.gentoo.org, |
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this will encourage others to test it and hopefully we can then pool |
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the results to get some sort of idea how powerful this really is. |
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Hanni |
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On 31/01/07, Daniel van Ham Colchete <daniel.colchete@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 1/31/07, Brian D. Ropers-Huilman <bropers@×××××××.edu> wrote: |
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> > Your comment on needing to "store *a lot* of data (like 50TB max)" is very |
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> > relative. For sites like ours and many others, *a lot* of data means 100's |
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> > of PB. :) |
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> > As to your questions RE: GlusterFS, this announcement has also recently |
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> > the rounds on the beowulf mailing list though there has not been too much |
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> > conversation about it. Being new, nobody has tried it as of yet, as such |
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> > there are not many comparative studies (if any) out there. |
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> My thinking exactly, it's very easy to say it does a lot of things. |
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> > What they claim to be able to do is quite nice. But then again, many |
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> vendors |
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> > and other FOSS cluster file systems have made such claims in the past. |
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> Only |
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> > time will tell. |
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> > The only real thing I can offer is that I will be watching this very |
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> > which might lend some credence to Gluster as a potential solution. |
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> I'll see if I can test it here at my work somewhen between now and the next |
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> 3 weeks. I would like to see how failsafe it really is. As soon as I have |
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> the results I'll post it here. |
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> > -- |
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> > Brian D. Ropers-Huilman, Director |
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> > Systems Administration and Technical Operations < bropers@×××××××.edu> |
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> > Supercomputing Institute for Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation |
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> > 599 Walter Library +1 |
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> 612-626-5948 (V) |
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> > 117 Pleasant Street S.E. +1 612-624-8861 (F) |
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> > University of Minnesota |
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> Twin Cities Campus |
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> > Minneapolis, MN 55455-0255 |
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> http://www.msi.umn.edu/ |
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E-mail: hanni.ali@×××××.com |
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