--On September 10, 2006 12:09:07 PM +0200 Jorge Salamero Sanz <bencer@cauterized.net> wrote:
hi all, 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.
It's performance is fine. It's no better or worse than any other networked FS really. That said, it might not be quite what you want. because each volume can only exist on one fileserver at a time in read+write mode. A single volume cannot be distributed.
do you have any idea what i could use to archive this target ? thanks ! :)
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