Hi,
I am looking for a network storage filesystem for our network. While browsing the web i came across lustre but i have a few questions so i hope this is the right place to ask them. 1. Can i use lustre like a network raid 5 storage system if one of the nodes fail do the others have a copy of the complete data to continue working. 2. Can i add further servers to expand the cluster when needed. And do the disk sizes need to be identical. 3. Can these servers have normal disks or do i need shared storage to run lustre. 4. How can i access my lustre filesystem from a windows os. 5. What are the common ways of accessing or mounting a lustre filesystem. 6. Which distro would you recommend to run lustre on. At the moment i am running gentoo on most of my servers which would mean patching a specific kernel if i understand that right. My idea was to start of with three servers with about 500 GB of disk space each. And combine this servers to one storage filesytem which has to be redundant to prevent data loss. I need to be able to access this filesystem from windows and linux servers. I would also like to be able to extend this setup to 5 or more servers when the storage space is needed. Can lustre meet this requirements? Or do i need to look further for an other solution. I would be grateful for any help or advice someone on the mailing list may be able to offer. Thanks Regards Simon _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.clusterfs.com/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
