On 11/9/2010 2:32 PM, Nicolas Ross wrote: >> Have you looked at Red Hat's GFS? That seems to fit at least a portion of >> your needs (I don't use it, so I don't know all that it does). > > I've spent better part of the last day to read documentation on gfs2 on > redhat's site. > > My god, that's pretty much what I'm looking for... To the point that I'll > probably be ordering a pair of intel 1u rack servers, 2 lsi fibre channel > card and a fiber switch to begin experimenting with this... > > The documentation is very technichal, I'm ok with that, but it seems to miss > some starting point. For instance, there's a part about the required number > of journal to create and the size of those. But I cannot find suggested size > or any thumb-rule for those... > > That made my day ;-) Do you have to have something that looks exactly like a file system or could your application use something that's more cloud-database like: http://www.basho.com/Riak.html Doesn't seem to have any concept of locking, though. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com