On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Cliff White wrote: > Umm....Lustre is not a replacement for DRBD, so we're very confused over > here. Lustre is a way of making a big distributed filesystem out of a bunch > of storage nodes. We don't do replication, it's basically RAID 0.
So any node does you lose the data? > So, you could use Lustre to make one big filesystem out of two local servers. > You could even make one big filesystem out of your multiple locations over > the WAN (it's been done). > > But, you can't use Lustre to mirror data. (yet, wait a year) The plan is to add more and more servers, so the hope was to be able to start with 2 and get some redundancy and then grow. > So I think your Gluster expedition might have confused you. Gluster and > Lustre are only words that sound somewhat the same, there is _no_ > relationship between the two. (except the fact that there is some filesystem > goop involved) You're comparing apples to knee socks if you are attempting to > map gluster experience to a Lustre setup. Hmm, I would say they are a little more like each other then that, but I understand. -Nathan _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
