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