From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 26 11:22:03 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 72E8616A417 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:22:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: from sigma.octantis.com.au (ns2.octantis.com.au [207.44.189.124]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BEF413C491 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:22:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: (qmail 20993 invoked from network); 26 Oct 2007 06:22:02 -0500 Received: from 124-170-10-134.dyn.iinet.net.au (HELO localhost) (124.170.10.134) by sigma.octantis.com.au with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 26 Oct 2007 06:22:02 -0500 Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 21:21:58 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome To: Wojciech Puchar Message-ID: <20071026212158.5c990f7a@meijome.net> In-Reply-To: <20071026102559.A83146@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <20071026104209.3c0628ba@meijome.net> <20071026102559.A83146@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.0.2 (GTK+ 2.10.14; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 11:22:03 -0000 On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:27:16 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > > > 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. Right. > > > - 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 :) cool, thanks for the pointers... I had a side note to review these in conjunction with ggate. So, is there any logical volume manager that works properly under 6.x or 7, ala LVM2 in Linux? ( I know of vinum, but the way I understand it is is pre-GEOM ). thanks Wojciech! :) B _________________________ {Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome Contrary to popular belief, Unix is user friendly. It just happens to be very selective about who it decides to make friends with. I speak for myself, not my employer. Contents may be hot. Slippery when wet. Reading disclaimers makes you go blind. Writing them is worse. You have been Warned.