Re: [Beowulf] network raid filesystem

2007-06-14 Thread Jerker Nyberg
Hi, Here are some pointers to some free software distributed parallel file system projects. They have different goals and are in different stages of development, but most of them aiming for fault tolerance (mirroring). I recommend that you take a look at GlusterFS, although I havn't tried it

[Beowulf] network raid filesystem

2007-06-13 Thread Farkas Levente
hi, we've a few 10-20 server in a lan each has 4 hdd. we'd like to create one big filesystem on these server hard disks. we'd like to create it in a redundant way ie: - if one (or more) of the hdd or server fails the whole filesystem still usable and consistent. - any server in this farm can see th