From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 16 8:21:25 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 A199937B401 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 08:21:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.liwing.de (mail.liwing.de [213.70.188.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AFDD43EB2 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 08:21:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rehsack@liwing.de) Received: (qmail 88080 invoked from network); 16 Dec 2002 16:21:15 -0000 Received: from stingray.liwing.de (HELO liwing.de) ([213.70.188.164]) (envelope-sender ) by mail.liwing.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 16 Dec 2002 16:21:15 -0000 Message-ID: <3DFDFD43.8050704@liwing.de> Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 17:20:19 +0100 From: Jens Rehsack Organization: LiWing IT-Services User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brian McCann Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FS Cluster? References: <000701c2a51b$cec34940$1500a8c0@dogbert> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 Brian McCann wrote: > 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 > Hi Brian, I'd recommend to write sth. about the client OS you plan to use. There are some solutions out there, but the all are special. Jens -- L i W W W i Jens Rehsack L W W W L i W W W W i nnn gggg LiWing IT-Services L i W W W W i n n g g LLLL i W W i n n g g Friesenstraße 2 gggg 06112 Halle g g g Tel.: +49 - 3 45 - 5 17 05 91 ggg e-Mail: Fax: +49 - 3 45 - 5 17 05 92 http://www.liwing.de/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message