On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 09:38:00PM -0200, Jorge L. deLyra wrote: > > of building a cluster with ~ 150 nodes and about 100-140 GB/node of > > 'free' hard drive space. > > Man, that's a lot of disk. Just a wild idea I'm curious about: anybody > ever tried exporting disks from nodes via the nbd (network block device) > and assembling a huge raid0 (stripping) with the nbd's on the front end? > This might make a very fast disk even with IDE disks and traffic through > the network. This would be sort of a funny way to use a cluster...
that's kinda like what pvfs ( http://parlweb.parl.clemson.edu/pvfs/ ) does. it works very very well for a high-performance scratch file system. ==rob -- Rob Latham Woodridge, IL USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
