Distributed Filesystem

[Martin Marcher]

Hi,

interesting Project.


Am 08.01.2007 um 12:38 schrieb Arjun Shankar:

> There are about 40 machines, each with an 80 GB hard drive, and if
> possible, we would like to club a few machines and use them as a
> distributed filesystem server with lots of storage space.
>
> Would it be possible to use this enormous amount of storage as a
> single volume (which will obviously be mounted as "/home") shared on
> the network? I did a search of packages avaiable for Dapper, and it
> did turn up a free AFS client. But no server package. Moreover, I dont
> even know if AFS is relevant here (thanks to my complete ignorance in
> stuff of this kind).
>
> Any pointers?

What comes to my mind would be

http://linux-iscsi.sourceforge.net/ and
http://www.redhat.com/software/rha/gfs/ (but I don't know if that is  
OSS)

hth
martin