On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:27:16 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > I have this pet project, playing with the Lustre Cluster FS. Is there > > anything similar to this that would run with FreeBSD as the host? ( Clients > > supported would HAVE to be linux,freebsd, Win32, OSX, ideally over standard > > protocols with no need for special driver). > > > > I seem to remember that ggate, in the GEOM stack, allows for storage over > > different nodes, but reading about ggate i am not sure it provides what I'm > > after : > > > > - storage over a number of nodes (few or large number). > > ggate provides remote volume. simply. Right. > > > - abstract view of the storage from the client's point of view ( 1 TB > > storage, doesnt matter how this is setup). > yes > > > - dynamic sizing : add servers, storage grows. > > no. you may have more remote/virtual volumes, > > > - resilience to node loss. > > > no. > > as every good unix tool, doesn't do everything, it does one thing just > right, remote volumes for ggate. > > use ggate with gmirror and gconcat :) cool, thanks for the pointers... I had a side note to review these in conjunction with ggate. So, is there any logical volume manager that works properly under 6.x or 7, ala LVM2 in Linux? ( I know of vinum, but the way I understand it is is pre-GEOM ). thanks Wojciech! :) B _________________________ {Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome Contrary to popular belief, Unix is user friendly. It just happens to be very selective about who it decides to make friends with. I speak for myself, not my employer. Contents may be hot. Slippery when wet. Reading disclaimers makes you go blind. Writing them is worse. You have been Warned. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"