Re: distributed filesystem for backup
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| On 2006-09-10 12:09:07, Jorge Salamero Sanz wrote:
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| i manage a mpi cluster which nodes (on a gigabit private lan) have plently
| free space (~60gigas each one). i'd like to use this free space to backup
| stuff.
|
| i was thinking about to merge the free space into a single logical volume so
| users could copy (rsync, or whatever) their files there.
|
| openafs can do it but i've been told that his performance with big files
| (~1giga) is not good.
|
| do you have any idea what i could use to archive this target ?
http://www.drbd.org/
DRBD is a block device which is designed to build high
availability clusters. This is done by mirroring a whole block
device via (a dedicated) network. You could see it as a network
raid-1.
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