[GRLUG] Fast Linux machine

[Al Tobey]

On 3/6/07, Tim Schmidt <timschmidt at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/6/07, Al Tobey <tobert at gmail.com> wrote:
> > You mean something like high-availability NFS or Samba on top of  GFS
> > or OCFS2?    I think that's what Red Hat is pushing for such
> > situations.
>
> GFS and OCFS2 assume a multipath storage subsystem separate from the
> network, like fiberchannel...  You can abuse NBD to make them work
> with just network connections, but it's ugly.  HA NFS or Samba make a
> decent user-facing service...

You could always look into AOE or iSCSI.

http://www.coraid.com/support/linux/
http://www.linux-iscsi.org/index.php/Main_Page

> What I want is a filesystem you can tell to use partition / disk
> /dev/X and interface ethX and use whatever space is available on
> whatever similarly configured disks on the network, to make your data
> as robust as possible.  Something like http://www.cleversafe.org/dsgfs
> but without getting postgreSQL involved.

Perhaps mysqlfs + MySQL Cluster may be more palette-able?   I'm
thinking AOE + LVM/MD mirroring is close but not really "grid".
While it's attractive to think of using all that extra local disk you
have lying around on your network, I tend to think that the complexity
of a system to make it work would bite you in the end.

>
> --tim
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