Re: Distributed filesystems in Debian

[Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre.ledru@inria.fr>]

Le jeudi 22 mars 2007 à 12:29 -0400, Brett Viren a écrit :
> About a month ago the issue of distributed filesystems in Debian was
> raised here.  Since then, has anyone had any experiences, good or bad?
> 
> Personally, I am looking for a good way to serve 16 disks (8TB), split
> into two nodes to a cluster of 18 nodes.
> 
> My requirements (or maybe better "desires") are:
> 
>  - present a single, monolithic as possible large filesystem
> 
>  - enough redundancy so one dead disk doesn't kill the whole
>  filesystem's files
> 
>  - RAID0 like parallelism to avoid bottlenecks
> 
>  - Free Software (Debian packages best), simple install and
>  maintenance.  
> 
>  - Good match to my cluster size (10s of nodes), additional hardware
>  not required.
> 
>  - Makes my morning coffee for me.
> 
> Currently I'm leaning towards using Lustre, but I worry it may not be
> a good fit to the small size of my cluster.  I'd also enjoy hearing
> about the applicability of PVFS2 and Red Hat's GFS.
It won't probably answer to all your requirements but I heard good
experience about DRBD :
http://www.drbd.org/


Sylvestre