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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 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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> 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 +1 612-626-5948 (V) |
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> 117 Pleasant Street S.E. +1 612-624-8861 (F) |
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> University of Minnesota Twin Cities Campus |
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> Minneapolis, MN 55455-0255 http://www.msi.umn.edu/ |
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