Maybe have a look at GFS. Regards > -----Original Message----- > From: linux-lvm-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:linux-lvm-bounces@redhat.com] > On Behalf Of Jan-Benedict Glaw > Sent: 30 May 2008 00:12 > To: linux-lvm@redhat.com > Subject: Distributed LVM/filesystem/storage > > Hi! > > I'm just thinking about using my friend's overly empty harddisks for a > common large filesystem by merging them all together into a single, > large storage pool accessible by everybody. > > However I still fail to find a good approach. One initial idea was to > export all physical volumes (partitions or full disks) vie NBD, join > them all on a single machine into one VG/LV, create a filesystem and > re-export that via NFS/SMB/... However, all data would need to go > through the net twice. While speed isn't the most important thing here > (but storage is!), that's way suboptimal. > > I also thought about something like tahoe (www.allmydata.org), or > other P2P based approaches like Freenet, but I'm not sure if that's a > good start. > > It would be nice to see if anybody of you did the same before (merging > the free space from a lot computers into one commonly used large > filesystem), if it was successful and what techniques > (LVM/NBD/DM/MD/iSCSI/Tahoe/Freenet/Other P2P/...) you used to get there, > and how well that worked out in the end. > > Thanks, JBG > > -- > Jan-Benedict Glaw jbglaw@lug-owl.de +49-172- > 7608481 > Signature of: > http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/faqs/questions.html > the second : _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
