From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 16 8:28:29 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 90CCE37B401 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 08:28:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from vms1.rit.edu (vms1.isc.rit.edu [129.21.3.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFC9643EDA for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 08:28:26 -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 <01KQ3JLILRJ6RLXTAA@ritvax.isc.rit.edu> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 11:26:46 EST Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 11:26:00 -0500 From: Brian McCann Subject: RE: FS Cluster? In-reply-to: <3DFDFD43.8050704@liwing.de> To: 'Jens Rehsack' , 'Brian McCann' Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <000f01c2a51f$d3178b60$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=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT 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 What/who is sth? The clients will be a mix of mounts from DOS via Samba or Windows via Samba. Thanks, --Brian -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Jens Rehsack Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 11:20 AM To: Brian McCann Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FS Cluster? 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message