From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 26 08:27:34 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 747D016A468 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 08:27:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl [IPv6:2001:4070:101:2::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E97313C48A for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 08:27:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l9Q8RJgZ083156; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:27:19 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from localhost (wojtek@localhost) by wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) with ESMTP id l9Q8RGG5083153; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:27:17 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:27:16 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar To: Norberto Meijome In-Reply-To: <20071026104209.3c0628ba@meijome.net> Message-ID: <20071026102559.A83146@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <20071026104209.3c0628ba@meijome.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: FreeBSD Questions ML Subject: Re: Storage cluster with FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 08:27:34 -0000 > > I have this pet project, playing with the Lustre Cluster FS. Is there anything similar to this that would run with FreeBSD as the host? ( Clients supported would HAVE to be linux,freebsd, Win32, OSX, ideally over standard protocols with no need for special driver). > > I seem to remember that ggate, in the GEOM stack, allows for storage over different nodes, but reading about ggate i am not sure it provides what I'm after : > > - storage over a number of nodes (few or large number). ggate provides remote volume. simply. > - abstract view of the storage from the client's point of view ( 1 TB storage, doesnt matter how this is setup). yes > - dynamic sizing : add servers, storage grows. no. you may have more remote/virtual volumes, > - resilience to node loss. > no. as every good unix tool, doesn't do everything, it does one thing just right, remote volumes for ggate. use ggate with gmirror and gconcat :)