Thanks for the slew of suggestions from everyone. Right now, my partner and I are thinking of a writing a distributed LVM. We're not too sure of the details yet but we imagine it'd be cool to create a cluster of storage nodes, each running a distributed LVM that's able to use the combined network storage and create volumes out of them. For reliability and high-availability, we'd want to use some form of RAID-ing across storage nodes so that if any node in the cluster went down, the volume data would remain intact. I did a google search for distributed volume managers and found one company, ScaleEight that has created their own proprietary distributed volume manager. Is anyone familiar with this company? There's a whitepaper available on their website but I'm having problems registering for it. Anyone happen to have copy of it? Thanks, -Kai -----Original Message----- From: Kai-Min Sung [mailto:k@kaisung.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 10:55 PM To: 'Linux-lvm@sistina.com' Subject: extending LVM for school project Hey everyone, I'm a masters student taking a distributed systems project class and would like to work on extending LVM. My initial idea was to modify LVM and allow it to create physical volumes using disks on remote nodes. But then I read posts about using ENBD to achieve this. Do people on this list have suggestions or ideas for a fun/interesting project that could be accomplished within 10 weeks? Regards, Kai-Min Sung _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
