Re: beowulf with afs

[Carsten Aulbert <carsten@welcomes-you.com>]

Carlos O'Donell wrote:

> If you run diskless nodes then distributed filesystems are not going to
> very usefull ;) I have not seen any serious benchmarks for all[1] of these
> filesystems. Each is largely effected by the topology and technology of 
> your cluster.
>
> [1] CODA, OpenAFS, GFS, OpenGFS, Lustre (Am I missing any?).

Speaking of it, does any of you know if any of these file systems are 
reliable against failure of a single (or a few nodes) out of say 150?

How about automatic rebuild and such things?

I'd like to gather any information possible since we're in the process 
of building a cluster with ~ 150 nodes and about 100-140 GB/node of 
'free' hard drive space.

Cheers

Carsten