I have 5 nodes, (running gentoo)
265mb ram, 9.1gb 10krpm scsi, (thus, high speed local storage)
And one Fileserver.
512mb, 2x 200gb sata (raid)
Now, i'd love to be able to host 200gb of files trough the apache's on the nodes,
They should cache everything on their local disk (as much as possible), to acchieve HIGH speeds.
But they would also need to be able to fetch other files from the slower 200gb filesrever.
Have you consider using squid for caching purposes? You could have one apache server, and few squid balancing your network load. But I think 256MB might be not enough.
