[NCLUG] help finding documentation for unique cluster setup

[Mike Jensen]

Sorry to spam the good guys at NCLUG....just thought I would let you know I
have done a lot of digging and based on what I found it looks like PVFS2 and
Lustre are really the only projects that can satasfy my goals.  I have found
some documentation and am going to give it a shot.  I will start trying
stuff on monday, I will let you know if I have any more questions.

Has anyone worked with PVFS2 or Lustre?  Any tips suggestions?  Any good
documentation you found?

On 7/20/06, Mike Jensen <thejent at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> one other thing I should menchine is that I don't really want anything
> special on the client side.  So I should be able to connect to it from ftp
> just like any other local volume.  Is it possible to have both the server
> and client side on the main node, and then be able to connect to it via ftp
> or something?  Because of the issues with the client side I am starting to
> wonder if I should go with unionFS.
>
>
> On 7/20/06, Mike Jensen <jentfoo at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > oh......so GFS is not what I want....If GFS can't do what I want do you
> > have
> > a recomendation on a filesystem that would be a good option for what I
> > am
> > wanting to do?  I was thinking maybe AFS, CODA, or Lustre.  What do you
> > think would be the easiest for my goals?  So far these distributed
> > filesystems seem to be, by far, the worse documented aspect of linux I
> > have
> > run into.  Is there any good words I should use in searching?  I have
> > been
> > using the filesystem name with things like 'tutorial' or '"how to"' etc.
> > Thanks again for your continued support :-)
> >
> > On 7/19/06, Sean Reifschneider <jafo at tummy.com > wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 10:54:23PM -0600, Mike Jensen wrote:
> > > >It looks like it needs a dev location for the drive.  How will I make
> > a
> > > dev
> > > >location for the drive that is on another server?  Will this be made
> > > durring
> > > >the clustering process?  Right now GFS does not look _that_ hard.
> > >
> > > That's right, GFS isn't a distributed file-system, it's the opposite:
> > > a centralized file-system that multiple systems can mount and access
> > > at the same time.  Typically, this is implemented using a fibre
> > channel
> > > RAID box connected to a FC switch with each node.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Sean
> > > --
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> > > screaming "Mama's little baby loves shortnin' bread".  -- Aerosmith
> > > Sean Reifschneider, Member of Technical Staff <jafo at tummy.com>
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> >
> > --
> > cheers,
> > Mike Jensen
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> cheers,
> Mike Jensen
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>



-- 
cheers,
Mike Jensen
thejent at gmail.com