On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote:I'm having trouble finding any real information about how (and how well)
> Alan McKay wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Christopher Chan
>> <christopher.chan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> A cluster filesystem
>> OK, but you've just given me a circular definition.
>>
>>> When you do not need/want a cluster file system
>> and again ...
>>
>
> Okay, a cluster/distributed file system that does not have its own on
> disk format. It makes use of whatever existing filesystem there is for
> actual storage and allows you to replicate files/load balance requests
> to files to 'storage servers' of any supported platform.
>
> At the same time, user level processes on 'clients' access the system as
> if it was an actual file system.
>
> This enables one to have Linux clients that run say samba to export the
> files to Windows clients but the actual files are kept on OpenSolaris
> servers on zfs. Should the Linux clients all go down, the Windows
> clients could still access the files on the OpenSolaris servers via samba.
this works and I'd like to know if it would be suitable for a backuppc
storage archive which generates millions of hardlinks. Does it deal
with hardlinks spanning backend storage servers transparently? And can
it replicate efficiently enough to have remote copies?
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Has anyone implemented, or used GlusterFS yet? What is your viewpoint on it?
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