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 -- Jaime D. Perea Duarte. <jaime at iaa dot es> Linux registered user #10472 Dep. Astrofisica Extragalactica. Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia (CSIC) Apdo. 3004, 18080 Granada, Spain. _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
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