Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 11:26:00 -0500 From: Brian McCann <bjm1287@ritvax.isc.rit.edu> To: 'Jens Rehsack' <rehsack@liwing.de>, 'Brian McCann' <bjm1287@ritvax.isc.rit.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: FS Cluster? Message-ID: <000f01c2a51f$d3178b60$1500a8c0@dogbert> In-Reply-To: <3DFDFD43.8050704@liwing.de>
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What/who is sth? The clients will be a mix of mounts from DOS via Samba
or Windows via Samba.
Thanks,
--Brian
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To: Brian McCann
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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
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