From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 16 7:59:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 434AA37B401 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 07:59:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from vms1.rit.edu (vms1.isc.rit.edu [129.21.3.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74CB343ED1 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 07:59:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bjm1287@ritvax.isc.rit.edu) Received: from dogbert ([129.21.129.47]) by ritvax.isc.rit.edu (PMDF V5.2-32 #40294) with ESMTPA id <01KQ3ILV22IERLY00A@ritvax.isc.rit.edu> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 10:58:01 EST Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 10:57:16 -0500 From: Brian McCann Subject: FS Cluster? To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <000701c2a51b$cec34940$1500a8c0@dogbert> MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-priority: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Wondering if anyone can help me out. I'm looking for clustering software (?) that will allow me to take 3 PCs, each with a 20GB HD for example, and combine them to form one 60GB "disk" that could be mounted from a client, and appear as one big disk. I'd imagine I'd need some kind of a front end box that the clients would connect to. I'd also like, but not necessary, the way that it would distribute the data NOT to be something like RAID0, where part of the data is on one server, and part on another...so if one server in the cluster were to fail, the other data would still be accessible. Does anyone have ANY ideas on how this could be done, or what software I should look at? I've been told by some friends who are big RedHat fans that Beowulf could probably do this, but that's Linux based...and I'd rather stick with FreeBSD. Thanks in advance, --Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message