On 5/23/07, Andrew Lentvorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Bob La Quey wrote:
> The point I was drifting toward was a peer to peer model where
> each workstation shared some disk space as part of a virtual
> central RAID NAS, which all of them could use. Not really like EC2
> at all.
>
> I kind of like the idea of a virtual NAS basedon the resources
> of every peer on the network. I think there is software for this
> but I have not looked in a long time.
ZFS on Solaris. You really need to look into it.
GEOM on FreeBSD also does a pretty good job as well. It's not quite as
slick as ZFS, but it gets pretty far along. Porting ZFS to FreeBSD was
pretty simple due to GEOM.
ZFS changed the way the storage stack intercommunicates. Here are some
notes from one of the developers:
http://blogs.sun.com/bonwick/category/ZFS
Wow. That is an interesting read. ZFS definitel sounds good.
Is anything like that in the works for Linux?
BobLQ
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