Re: [CentOS] "upstream" Storage Server fully OSS?

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 7:48 AM, Ted Miller tedlists@sbcglobal.net wrote:

If RHSS is not available or suitable, other suggestions welcome. I need a file system/server with:

• primary function is serving MP3 files for playback in a radio station

environment in Haiti * if the system goes down all your clients (listeners) know it * they know it NOW * they know how long it takes to get it back up

• High Availability as the primary concern
• ability to administrate via web interface or similar by non-Linux-savvy

IT staff.

• ability to grow file system from 2-3TB to 20-50TB by simply adding disks

and/or adding 'bricks'

• clients will all be Windows computers, so files accessible by CIFS
• critical application is read-only
• prefer a system that would continue serving files even if the network

goes down (but have not found such a system yet for Windows clients).

Is it possible to change the application so it uses http to get content or uses a distributed database natively? Distributed failure-tolerant systems are a lot easier if you don't even try to provide filesystem semantics that require a lot of atomic operations.