Greetings, On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Venkatesh Nandakumar <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > We have a lab (Debian+Ubuntu Comps) and we want a very basic Distributed > Files System. > The requirements should be:- > > 1) Should connect all comps as one huge files system ( or at least a part of > it, for e.g ~/Users folder in all computers). May have a single server > daemon running and multiple client services (or some other combination) > 2) Prefer using native 'cp' 'mv' 'rm' commands. For e.g Tahoe-LAFS had its > own complex set of `tahoe add` commands which were difficult to use and > supported less flags {And no, alias did not make it any easier to use} > 3) Should be "dropbox-like" in functionality. Drag-Drop using nautilus > should be supported since most of the users are not very experienced. > 4) Windows support is of low priority, but added advantage. > 5) Least data redundancy ( and wastage of disk space) > > There were a huge number of distributed file systems listed on wikipedia, > and I prefer to get your opinions instead. Especially from people with prior > experience in this regard. >
Not sure whether it meets your needs completely -- http://howtoforge.com/distributed-replicated-storage-across-four-storage-nodes-with-glusterfs-on-centos-5.4 Regards, Rajagopal _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
