About a month ago the issue of distributed filesystems in Debian was raised here. Since then, has anyone had any experiences, good or bad?
Personally, I am looking for a good way to serve 16 disks (8TB), split into two nodes to a cluster of 18 nodes. My requirements (or maybe better "desires") are: - present a single, monolithic as possible large filesystem - enough redundancy so one dead disk doesn't kill the whole filesystem's files - RAID0 like parallelism to avoid bottlenecks - Free Software (Debian packages best), simple install and maintenance. - Good match to my cluster size (10s of nodes), additional hardware not required. - Makes my morning coffee for me. Currently I'm leaning towards using Lustre, but I worry it may not be a good fit to the small size of my cluster. I'd also enjoy hearing about the applicability of PVFS2 and Red Hat's GFS. -Brett. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
