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

[Andy Phillips]

hi,
   You're probably looking for something like this; 

http://www.parl.clemson.edu/pvfs/

   I've never used it, so I cannot vouch for its usability. Another
solution that may do what you want and is probably less experimental
is Global FS from a certain company, whose logo is a man wearing red
headgear. (In case there's a deleter bot sweeping oss.oracle.com, but
you never know). There are kernels + packages that come with it for
centos and fedora.

   On the commercial side, there are options. If you want to know those,
email me off list.

   Andy
(Not associated with any storage company)
      

On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 17:20 -0800, Sunil Mushran wrote:
> 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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