I'd strongly recommend Lustre.  It will work perfectly well from a
single server node and give much higher bandwidths than NFS.  If you
have two nic's you can also serve up the file system over both and see
around 150MB/s total bandwidth.

Also, if you need more storage in the future, you can just add more
servers... and get linear scaling of bandwidth.

Stu.


On 3/1/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,

I have a small (16 dual xeon machines) cluster. We are going to add
an additional machine which is only going to serve a big filesystem via
a gigabit interface.

Does anybody knows what is better for a cluster of this size, exporting the
filesystem via NFS or use another alternative such as a cluster filesystem
like GFS or OCFS?

Thanks in advance

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           Dep. Astrofisica Extragalactica.
           Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia (CSIC)
           Apdo. 3004, 18080 Granada, Spain.
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