On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote: > > Alan McKay wrote: > >> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Christopher Chan > >> <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote: > >>> A cluster filesystem > >> OK, but you've just given me a circular definition. > >> > >>> When you do not need/want a cluster file system > >> and again ... > >> > > > > Okay, a cluster/distributed file system that does not have its own on > > disk format. It makes use of whatever existing filesystem there is for > > actual storage and allows you to replicate files/load balance requests > > to files to 'storage servers' of any supported platform. > > > > At the same time, user level processes on 'clients' access the system as > > if it was an actual file system. > > > > This enables one to have Linux clients that run say samba to export the > > files to Windows clients but the actual files are kept on OpenSolaris > > servers on zfs. Should the Linux clients all go down, the Windows > > clients could still access the files on the OpenSolaris servers via > samba. > > I'm having trouble finding any real information about how (and how well) > this works and I'd like to know if it would be suitable for a backuppc > storage archive which generates millions of hardlinks. Does it deal > with hardlinks spanning backend storage servers transparently? And can > it replicate efficiently enough to have remote copies? > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell at gmail.com > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Has anyone implemented, or used GlusterFS yet? What is your viewpoint on it? -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers SoftDux Website: http://www.SoftDux.com Technical Blog: http://Blog.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100209/e788792d/attachment-0004.html>