Paolo, You could mount toaster's partition on head node using iscsi. Run glusterfs server on head node exporting the two partitions. Run glusterfs client on the researcher's nodes. Krishna 2008/9/18 Paolo Supino <paolo.supino at gmail.com>: > Hi > > now that I have a new shiney parallel filesystem :-) I want to take > it a step forward (the fun never ends ;-) ) ... > A few words on my HPC cluster: > 1. The private network between the compute nodes, head and toaster > (Netapp FAS 2020) is Gigabit Ethernet. > 2. The toaster exports 2.1 and 5.1 TB volumes served over NFSv3 (ouch..) > 3. Only the head node is multi homed and connected to the faculty > network, where the researchers are ... > > What I thought of doing: > 1. Re export the toaster using iSCSI. > 2. Mount the iSCSI exports on the head and add them to the gluster > volume. This is pretty straight forward :-) and voil? I have a uniform > 9.3TB volume ... > 3. The last part is the tricky part that I still have to figure out: > have the researchers be able to be gluster clients of this volume > without exposing the private network to the faculty network (I don't > want to NFS export it) > > > > > -- > Paolo > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://zresearch.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users >
