On Sun, 2008-06-01 23:09:01 +0200, Hannes Dorbath <light@theendofthetunnel.de> wrote: > Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > > 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. > > GlusterFS with Unify translator is exactly what you are asking for. > > http://www.gluster.org/docs/index.php/GlusterFS Already had a look at that, too. "Unify" seems to not directly implement any measure of redundancy. So if one Brick goes down, everything that was there is gone. Maybe its possible to play with the `mirror' translator as well, but on the first look, it seems to be non-trivial to accomodate for a steady loss and addition of bricks. MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw jbglaw@lug-owl.de +49-172-7608481 Signature of: 23:53 <@jbglaw> So, ich kletter' jetzt mal ins Bett. the second : 23:57 <@jever2> .oO( kletter ..., hat er noch Gitter vorm Bett, wie früher meine Kinder?) 00:00 <@jbglaw> jever2: *patsch* 00:01 <@jever2> *aua*, wofür, Gedanken sind frei! 00:02 <@jbglaw> Nee, freie Gedanken, die sind seit 1984 doch aus! 00:03 <@jever2> 1984? ich bin erst seit 1985 verheiratet!
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