Wow, so much information but nobody to present it. Would one of you "fountains of knowledge" be willing to give a quick overview at this Saturday's meeting? On Thu, 04 Dec 2003, jeffr at odeon.net wrote: > > IIRC, Sistina was working on a project called GFS, and they eventually > changed it to a non-open source project. A group is working from the last > open source release of GFS at http://opengfs.sourceforge.net/ > > Also, last time I looked (a couple of years ago) GFS/OpenGFS didn't > support running samba or nfs on the gfs distributed file system. You may > want to check with Sistina to see if this has changed for their code base. > If it has, and you're looking for a turnkey product, then they may be your > best option. > > Something else that may be useful is NBD http://www.xss.co.at/linux/NBD/ > > The Network Block Device project would let you aggregate the disk space > from several different systems over a network to a master system, and then > export all of that storage space via nfs or samba or some other protocol > to all of your other systems. > > There's also AFS and Coda. > > http://www.unc.edu/atn/dci/dci_components/afs/ > > http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/ > > I've played with nbd a little, but nothing in a production environment. > It doesn't provide any sort of data integretity checking like the others > do. You could however do software raid across your nbd providing systems, > which would provide at least some redundancy. > > In other words, you'd have for example 4 storage servers, each with some > form of redundant storage (raid 5 probably, either hardware or software). > Then, on your master server you build a software raid 5 out of the nbd > storage servers, losing 1 server's worth of storage but protecting against > any one storage server failing. Of course, your master server is still a > single point of failure, as is the network switch for your storage lan. > > I don't know how any of these solutions perform for day to day usage. > > Jeff > > > > On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Brent Friedman wrote: > > > I was asked to look into feasibility for setting up a Linux (or *bsd) > > based SAN. I know there have been some kernel mods for this kind of > > stuff, but I don't know their current status, and quick googles show > > something called netMD at a conference in ottawa, but no website for it. > > I used to work at the Utech Center near campus, and I think the people > > at Sistina were doing something like this. > > > > Because of various development environments, I need the SAN to be > > reachable from anything (meaning Windoze, AIX, Solaris or other Linux > > boxen). I am not very versant in vfs, lvm, etc., but I have the time to > > deal with a manual. > > > > Any comments on what will/won't work, or suggestions on sites/mailing > > lists for linux SANs? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Brent Friedman > > > > _______________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- Clay Fandre email: clay at fandre.com PGP Key ID: 0x50DBBB60 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list