On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 12:54:57 +0530, gaurav <gauravp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi List, > I have around 50 machines in my lab, since user data is lying > at central server (all home directory mounted here)....around 50 to 70% > storage of local machines is un used .. I was thinking if there was a > file system using which > > 1. Is Distributed across all these machines > 2. Transparent to users (i.e for users can access thru normal path eg > /dist/tom/data ) > 3. Redundancy factor (Since files are distributed, if one part of > gets corrupt it should automatically restore) > 4. ACL > 5. Scalable Fedora core 4 will have Red Hat GFS. Its already in rawhide if you want to check it out -- Regards, Rahul Sundaram
