> I'm not sure that what he wants does exist (and neither is he, that's > why he's asking)
Precisely - although there are some promising leads to check out. Lustre in general seems like it would be good to know, even if it doesn't solve this goal. Gluster with local affinity turned on, sounds like a real likely candidate. Local ext3, plus NFS unionfs is another possibility. > what he's wanting is a cluster filesystem where any system can read > data that lives on any drive, but when he creates a file it should be > created on the local drive. > > the idea is to give local-drive performance for anything created by > this box, while falling back to NFS-like performance if you access > files created on a different box. Precisely. > he's not planning to have a high-bandwidth network in place to share > this data. Well, 1Gb Ethernet. I'd call that medium. It's not a fibrechannel san, but it's also not a 1.5Mb wan. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
