Not sure what you are trying to accomplish, but it seems like a parallel file 
system like pvfs2 or lustre might be what you are looking for.

Larry Lines

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> From: David Busby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [gentoo-cluster] Like Isilon?
> Sent: 18 Jul '05 01:56
> 
>  I'm certian you all know about Isilon, which effectively makes a big huge 
> data location from many dedicated devices.  I
>  want to do that too, but on Gentoo.  My vision of the system is like such:
>  
>  [ 100Mbit Ethernet Corp. Network  ]
>    |
>    |
>  [ 2 front end clustered/HA servers ]
>     This is what the other network hosts will see, I would like have 
> availablility to these servers via netatalk and
>  samba.  I'd make those to boxes to have the same IP with the load balancer 
> in netfilter.  They would serve data from the
>  storage cluster behind them.
>    |
>    |
>  [ Gig/Fiber ]
>    |
>    |
>  [ n+ backend storage servers. ]
>     These would be big disk boxes, you know SCSI+RAID5 in the hardware lots 
> of storage space.
>     These would run Gentoo as well and then I can add/remove nodes in this 
> storage cluster witout down time or data loss.
>  
>  I'm looking at evms vs gfs.  Seems like GFS is closer to what I want than 
> evms, but I don't know.
>  Also, what about when I buy iSCSI devices or some of those other fancy SAN 
> devices, how can I plug those into the data
>  servers cluster to use their storage, what package to use?
>  
>  /djb
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