[ you might have seen this on debian-devel, figured this would be the better forum ]
I'm going to tackle packaging pvfs. PVFS makes use of the leftover disk space in a cluster, presenting one great big file space to applications. ( 3 extra gigs on 10 nodes, 30 gigs of space to play with). Reads and writes to a file can be executed in parallel (an MPI job doing file i/o on distinct chunks of a file, say ) PVFS is GPL, and you can read more about it at http://parlweb.parl.clemson.edu/pvfs It's going to be a bit tricky to package: on the server side there's a metadata server running on one host, i/o servers running on N machines. On the client side, there is a C API one can code directly to, or one can use a kernel module and a userspace daemon to pretend the PVFS system is a regular unix-like file system. ==rob -- Rob Latham: linux A-Team Bethlehem, PA USA EAE8 DE90 85BB 526F 3181 1FCF 51C4 B6CB 08CC 0897
