[olug] NAS Cluster

Curtis LaMasters curtislamasters at gmail.com
Mon Dec 8 06:25:33 UTC 2008


OpenFiler may be a good solution for you.  http://openfiler.com/

Curtis LaMasters
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On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 3:17 PM, Carl Lundstedt <clundst at unlserve.unl.edu>wrote:

> hadoop?
> http://hadoop.apache.org/core/
> We're testing hdfs at our shop as a replacement for dcache (dcache.org)
> which just stinks.
> We have 200+ TB in hadoop and all our 'small' pools (<1TB) have worked
> great, all our medium pools (3TB<pool<10TB) have had some issues, but
> mostly hardware.  I'll be putting in one of our thumpers (48TB) next
> week to see how it works in hadoop.
>
> Hadoop seems to be much more fault tolerant than other distributed
> filesystems we've used.
>
>
> Carl Lundstedt
> UNL
> > Hello,
> >       Anyone doing NAS clustering around here?
> > I will have 3 pallets of new servers in a few weeks, and I get to use
> some
> > of them, perhaps 12 or more for experimentation.
> >
> > My goals are open source, cost, performance and redundancy but mainly
> > redundancy.
> >
> > I've seen it done with iSCSI and LVM, but i havnt seen anyone pull the
> plug
> > on a node and be able to keep the data intact.
> >
> > I've been reading up on PVFS2, and that looks promising.
> >
> > Just seeing if anyone has done this with great success, I'd like to be
> able
> > to pull the plug on a node and not lose any data.
> >
> > Machine specs are Dell R200, quadcore intel, 2GB ram, 146GB raid1, dual
> 1GbE
> > I need to find some more switches now
> >
> > Thanks and have a great weekend ppl
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