> Wondering if anyone can help me out. I'm looking for clustering > 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.
IIRC beowulf is kind of a compute cluster. From your description it seems that you are looking for a distributed filesystem. Have a look at the Coda filesystem or the intermezzo filesystem. But be warned: as I looked at them about 18 months ago, they both were not production-ready. -volker To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
