Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 17:20:19 +0100 From: Jens Rehsack <rehsack@liwing.de> To: Brian McCann <bjm1287@ritvax.isc.rit.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FS Cluster? Message-ID: <3DFDFD43.8050704@liwing.de> References: <000701c2a51b$cec34940$1500a8c0@dogbert>
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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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