[ale] distributed network file system

[Jeff Hubbs]

A couple years ago or so, I was able to get ATA Over Ethernet going 
between one target and two initiators, all running Gentoo.  It worked 
perfectly but for the lack of a cluster-aware filesystem; things got 
crazy in there pretty quick when both initiators mounted the target and 
started making writes. :)


On 6/26/12 4:16 PM, Vernard Martin wrote:
> On 06/25/2012 04:49 PM, John Heim wrote:
>> I would like to set up a distributed network file system in my department.
>> There is a dizzying array of possibilities, gfarmfs, ceph, glusterfs, just
>> to name a few.
>>
>> Needs:
>> 1. Should work on a large number of small nodes, 100Gb each.
>> 2. Parallelism&  striping.
>> 3. Prefer debian package, GPL.
>> 4. Meta data in mysql would be nice.
>>
>> Any experience and/or recommendations?
>>
>> __
> PVFS or Lustre work quite wellf or these tasks. I've managed to use
> gigabit ethernet to tie together 16 nodes with only 75GB each on them to
> form a fast filesystem. Also, Fghs is new on the block and very nice as
> well.
>
> V
>
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