Re: distributed filesystem for backup

[Dave Watkins <debianisp@snorks.dyndns.org>]

Jorge Salamero Sanz 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.
>
>do you have any idea what i could use to archive this target ?
>
>thanks ! :)
>  
>
PVFS2 may be what you're looking for if you want performace.

http://www.pvfs.org/