Brian McCann wrote:
>-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Jens Rehsack Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 11:20 AM To: Brian McCann Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FS Cluster?Brian McCann wrote:Wondering if anyone can help me out. I'm looking for clusteringHi Brian,
software (?) that will allow me to take 3 PCs, each with a 20GB HD for
example, and combine them to form one 60GB "disk" that could be mounted from a client, and appear as one big disk. I'd imagine I'd need some kind of a front end box that the clients would connect to. I'd also like, but not necessary, the way that it would distribute the
data NOT to be something like RAID0, where part of the data is on one server, and part on another...so if one server in the cluster were to fail, the other data would still be accessible. Does anyone have ANY ideas on how this could be done, or what software I should look at? I've been told by some friends who are big RedHat fans that Beowulf could probably do this, but that's Linux based...and I'd rather stick with FreeBSD.
Thanks in advance,
--Brian
I'd recommend to write sth. about the client OS you plan to use. There are some solutions out there, but the all are special.
Jens
> What/who is sth? The clients will be a mix of mounts from DOS
> via Samba or Windows via Samba.
>
> Thanks,
> --Brian
>
Hi Brian, I recommend to take a look to the features of the upcoming samba 3.0 which supports active directory services. AFAIK this allows you to export some shares on different computers using one name, eg. \\domain\share. But you need client support which is available from microsoft.
Jens
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