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2005-08-16 Thread Erez D
i installed pvfs2 it seams a good solution for a distributed disk over a cluster cheers, erez.On 7/27/05, Marc A. Volovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoth Muli Ben-Yehuda: Looking at AFS has been known to induce tears and hysteria. It's the most non-unix-like UNIX FS I've ever seen.Exactly, old

distributed disk

2005-07-27 Thread Erez D
hi I have few machines, each with a small disk i want to build one big network disk from all. (i.e. one partition) how do i do that ? btw: system: centos-4.0 (RHEL4 equiv) erez.

Re: distributed disk

2005-07-27 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 07:00:33PM +0200, Erez D wrote: hi I have few machines, each with a small disk i want to build one big network disk from all. (i.e. one partition) how do i do that ? Export them via nbd, gnbd, drbd, iscsi or AOE as a network block device, and then put raid on top

Re: distributed disk

2005-07-27 Thread Marc A. Volovic
Quoth Erez D: I have few machines, each with a small disk i want to build one big network disk from all. (i.e. one partition) Oh my, isn't this a can of worms. It will be MUCH easier to build a NFS snake-pit out of this. However, if you really want to build one filesystem of of the shebang

Re: distributed disk

2005-07-27 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Erez D, from the post of Wed, 27 Jul: hi I have few machines, each with a small disk i want to build one big network disk from all. (i.e. one partition) how do i do that ? I remember Qlusters used to use a flavor of GFS that let all machines see the roots of all of the other

Re: distributed disk

2005-07-27 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 08:41:49PM +0300, Marc A. Volovic wrote: However, if you really want to build one filesystem of of the shebang - look at AFS or GFS. Looking at AFS has been known to induce tears and hysteria. It's the most non-unix-like UNIX FS I've ever seen. Seriously, anyone have

RE: distributed disk

2005-07-27 Thread Guy Teverovsky
Take a good look at Lustre: http://www.lustre.org/ Guy From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Erez D Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 8:01 PM To: ilug Subject: distributed disk hi I have few machines, each with a small disk i want to build one

Re: distributed disk

2005-07-27 Thread Marc A. Volovic
Quoth Muli Ben-Yehuda: Looking at AFS has been known to induce tears and hysteria. It's the most non-unix-like UNIX FS I've ever seen. Exactly, old chap. Would it not be fun seeing someone do this ;-). Seriously, anyone have suggestions for a distributed fs suitable for a home sort of