Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:27:16 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions ML <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Storage cluster with FreeBSD Message-ID: <20071026102559.A83146@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <20071026104209.3c0628ba@meijome.net> References: <20071026104209.3c0628ba@meijome.net>
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> > I have this pet project, playing with the Lustre Cluster FS. Is there anything similar to this that would run with FreeBSD as the host? ( Clients supported would HAVE to be linux,freebsd, Win32, OSX, ideally over standard protocols with no need for special driver). > > I seem to remember that ggate, in the GEOM stack, allows for storage over different nodes, but reading about ggate i am not sure it provides what I'm after : > > - storage over a number of nodes (few or large number). ggate provides remote volume. simply. > - abstract view of the storage from the client's point of view ( 1 TB storage, doesnt matter how this is setup). yes > - dynamic sizing : add servers, storage grows. no. you may have more remote/virtual volumes, > - resilience to node loss. > no. as every good unix tool, doesn't do everything, it does one thing just right, remote volumes for ggate. use ggate with gmirror and gconcat :)
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