Re: Clustered file system

[Jerry McAllister]

On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 11:44:26PM +0200, Rico Secada wrote:

 Hi
 
 We are expanding at work and I am messing around with different setups.
 
 I need a file system that will *look* like its just on one machine, 
 like when mounting with NFS, but because of the large amount of data, 
 I really need to expand the files to several servers.

Well, that sounds like AFS.   Check out OpenAFS and Arla - Arla is
just a client, not the server.   OpenAFS does both, but may not
handle the most recent FreeBSD versions.   I haven't kept up lately.

Also, you might want to check out ZFS and see if it suits  your 
needs.   I understand it will be available in FreeBSD in 7.xx.
It comes from SUN.

 
 Also I need some kind of security.

AFS does authentication and has ACLs.

jerry
 
 I haven't set something like this up before so all kind of friendly 
 advice would be greatly appriciated. What solution is recommended?
 
 Best regards
 Rico
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Re: Clustered file system

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On 01/05/07, Rico Secada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hi

We are expanding at work and I am messing around with different setups.

I need a file system that will *look* like its just on one machine,
like when mounting with NFS, but because of the large amount of data,
I really need to expand the files to several servers.

Also I need some kind of security.

I haven't set something like this up before so all kind of friendly
advice would be greatly appriciated. What solution is recommended?



AFIK, zfs in -CURRENT can do this.  -CURRENT runs fairly well[1],
if you catch it at the right time.  Not sure if/when the MFC is planned.

There might be something in geom(8) which could do this, as well,
but I do not know.


[1] YMMV, obviously.  The one box I have on -CURRENT is not heavily
loaded and not filled with cutting-edge technology.  The 12-March
snapshot of 7 wouldn't have zfs, though (I think?)

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