From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 17 7: 3:38 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 2BF2E37B401 for ; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 07:03:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from astarte.volker.de (p508938AC.dip.t-dialin.net [80.137.56.172]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B359743ED4 for ; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 07:03:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@secspace.de) Received: from astarte.volker.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by astarte.volker.de (8.12.6/8.12.6) with SMTP id gBHF3Yvu000268 for ; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 16:03:34 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from freebsd@secspace.de) Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 16:03:34 +0100 From: Volker Kindermann To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FS Cluster? Message-Id: <20021217160334.24d48391.freebsd@secspace.de> In-Reply-To: <000701c2a51b$cec34940$1500a8c0@dogbert> References: <000701c2a51b$cec34940$1500a8c0@dogbert> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.6claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.7) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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. IIRC beowulf is kind of a compute cluster. From your description it seems that you are looking for a distributed filesystem. Have a look at the Coda filesystem or the intermezzo filesystem. But be warned: as I looked at them about 18 months ago, they both were not production-ready. -volker To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message