> It seems an external fibre > or SAS raid is needed, to be precise, a redundant-path SAN is needed. you could do it with commodity disks and Gb, or you can spend almost unlimited amounts on gold-plated disks, FC switches, etc.
the range of costs is really quite remarkable, I guess O(100x). compare this to cars where even VERY nice production cars are only a few times more expensive than the most cost-effective ones. > as the idea of loosing the file system if one > node goes down doesn't seem good, even if temporary. how often do you expect nodes to fail, and why? regards, mark hahn. _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
