[Lustre-discuss] Gluster then DRBD now Lustre?

[Andreas Dilger]

On Jun 16, 2008  11:54 -0400, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 10:34 -0500, nathan at robotics.net wrote:
> > Our day one config is two servers with 10TB each in NYC and SJC. 
> 
> These are your "file servers"?  Are they meant to be servers for users
> local (i.e. on a LAN) to them?  NYC == New York City?  What is SJC?

SJC == San Jose, California

> > P.S. Once long long ago and far far away lustre had links that you could 
> > download software from. Today the only way I see to do it is to log into 
> > sun and then download.  I have scripts that I use to build stuff and this 
> > is a big pain....
> 
> Yes, systems like OpenWRT do similar things.  I'm afraid I have no
> solution for this problem.  I certainly have not tried it, but perhaps
> you can analyse the SDLC log-in and download process and automate it
> with your account credentials.  Wget or CURL should be able to simulate
> the process a browser would go through.  Likely you have to pay
> attention to, retrieve, store and send cookies throughout the process.

You can use CVS to download the source anonymously.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.