Hi,
On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 12:54 +0530, gaurav 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
What do you mean with distributed exactly ?
> 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
>
> Is this my wild dream ...or stuff like already exists..if yes the pl
> share.I was evaluating CODA but it is not ready for production release
> Any Ideas/Help?
>
If you mean serving the local fs of each host via NFS to all other
systems, yes that's possible and often used in cluster environments, but
a huge amount of administration work ... if you would like to have 1 fs
with the amount of space of all free unused local space together, this
is not possible ...
Cheers
Alex
> Regards,
> Gaurav
>
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