> It's forseeable in the future, though, to where we can't push these > linear writes to disk fast enough as people upload photos. Either the > interface (GigE, iSCSI, Fibre Channel) isn't fast enough or whatever. > It's way out in the future, but it'll come faster than I like to think > about. > > In that case, we need a nice way to spread those writes across multiple > disks/servers/whatever. GigE bonding might solve it temporarily, but > that can only last so far. > Don, It seems you want something more like Lustre (http://www.lustre.org/): "The central target in this project is the development of Lustre, a next-generation cluster file system which can serve clusters with 10,000's of nodes, petabytes of storage, move 100's of GB/sec with state of the art security and management infrastructure." Alec -- Evolution: Taking care of those too stupid to take care of themselves.
