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 -------Original Message------- > 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 > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > -------Original Message------- -- [email protected] mailing list
