[ubuntu-in] Distributed File System

[Ninad Pundalik]

Hi,

On 22/03/2010, Venkatesh Nandakumar <venkatesh88 at gmail.com> wrote:
> If I understood you currently then:
> Have a server with say /mountpoint and mount multiple client's
> /freediskspace to it /mountpoint/cli1, /mountpoint/cli2, /mountpoint/cli3..
> and have all the clients mount server's /mountpoint to say ~/User?
>
Yes.

> In this case, I would say that the amount of userspace available to a user
> is limited. It acts more of a "samba like shared-folders" where you have
> read-write permission. So, if a person uses up all the space available on
> /mountpoint/cli1/mydir he'd have to manually move/create another directory
> in /mountpoint/cli2/mydir. Which is not ideal.
>
Yes, true.  This did not occur to me. :)  This is anyway a very
simplistic solution to the problem you are looking at.

> Ilug-c members have suggested GlusterFS and openafs, I'd be looking into it
> for now, if I receive no other suggestions. (Thanks guys!)
>
Please blog about this or post it to the mailing list once you have
the setup, for the benefit of others.  Would love to know how this
works out. :)

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