On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Eric Shubert <[email protected]> wrote:
> Robert LeBlanc wrote: > >> I'm trying to think about how to setup a Samba system and would like to >> pick >> the brains of some experts. We are looking up put a large amount of >> storage >> ~75TB in a central data center. We have some remote (ok, not remote, but >> across slower links, ok if you consider several hundred clients over 1Gb >> to >> be slow) locations that we would like to set up samba servers that 'cache' >> the file system and serve it up to the clients in the building and sync >> with >> the main data center storage. The idea is have a couple of TB that are >> located in the building that serve up the Samba share. When a client >> requests a file, if it's in the local cache it is served up from there, if >> not then the Samba server grabs the file from the main data center and >> serves it to the client. When a file is written, something like rsync is >> used to transfer only difference back to the main data center. The problem >> is that I'm not sure of a file system that does this. We are using Lustre >> on >> our HPC, but this won't do what we want. >> >> Any suggestions are welcome. >> >> Robert LeBlanc >> Life Sciences & Undergraduate Education Computer Support >> Brigham Young University >> > > I'm curious to know what you came up with for this. Care you share? > TIA. > > We haven't come up with anything yet. We are still thinking this over. It's not pressing yet as we don't have the storage yet. Robert LeBlanc Life Sciences & Undergraduate Education Computer Support Brigham Young University -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
