[Lustre-discuss] Fwd: Simple servers as storage nodes

Stas Oskin stas.oskin at gmail.com
Mon Mar 30 09:15:22 PDT 2009


Hi.

>So these Linux boxes you have, do they have a task already or are you
>going to dedicate them to the job of serving their disk space out in a
>uniform volume?

Actually I'd prefer an approach where these boxes do other tasks, but
depends on the solution.

>Do you have any expectations that these Linux boxes
>will also be able to access that unified volume or will there be other
>Linux machines accessing the unified volume?

Both would be great.

Regards.

2009/3/30 Brian J. Murrell <Brian.Murrell at sun.com>

> Hi.  It was pointed out that perhaps I was misunderstanding your
> question/situation.
>
> On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 09:16 -0400, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 13:43 +0300, Stas Oskin wrote:
> > >
> > > What I'm actually look for, is a solution that can take plain Linux
> > > boxes, and unify their space into a single volume, with optional
> > > replication of every file.
>
> So these Linux boxes you have, do they have a task already or are you
> going to dedicate them to the job of serving their disk space out in a
> uniform volume?  Do you have any expectations that these Linux boxes
> will also be able to access that unified volume or will there be other
> Linux machines accessing the unified volume?
>
> b.
>
>
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