[Ocfs2-users] Newbie questions -- is OCFS2 what I even want?

[Sunil Mushran]

You are probably looking for a distributed file system. Check
out afs and/or v9fs.

Thad Beier wrote:
> Dear Sirs and Madams,
>
> I run a small visual effects production company, Hammerhead Productions.
>
> We'd like to have an easily extensible inexpensive relatively 
> high-performance
> storage network using open-source components.  I was hoping that OCFS2
> would be that system.
>
> I have a half-dozen 2 TB fileservers I'd like the rest of the network 
> to see
> as a single 12 TB disk, with the aggregate throughput of the six servers
> serving some 50 compute nodes on the network.
>
> Is this what OCFS2 is for, or not?  My guess is that it isn't, but I'm 
> having
> a hard time parsing the documentation.  If it isn't what OCFS2 is for, 
> what
> am I looking for?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Thad Beier
>
> -- 
> Thad Beier
> Hammerhead Productions
> thadbeier at gmail.com <mailto:thadbeier at gmail.com>
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