Re: [CentOS] RE: Largish filesystems [was Re: XFS install issue]

2008-06-02 Thread Bent Terp
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 9:38 PM, Alain Terriault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just wondering if any one ever consider/use Coraid for massive storage under > CentOS? > http://www.coraid.com > It seems like a very reasonable option.. comments ? It doesn't go all the way, but sure looks as interesting

RE: [CentOS] RE: Largish filesystems [was Re: XFS install issue]

2008-06-02 Thread Bowie Bailey
Alain Terriault wrote: > Just wondering if any one ever consider/use Coraid for massive storage > under CentOS? > http://www.coraid.com > It seems like a very reasonable option.. comments ? I have one of those installed on CentOS 4.6 with 1TB of storage. I'm sharing it between three servers. I c

RE: [CentOS] RE: Largish filesystems [was Re: XFS install issue]

2008-06-02 Thread Lundgren, Andrew
> > My personal guess (and probably more than a few others) is that Sun is > interested in taking the clustering functionality that > underlies Lustre > and integrating it with ZFS for a future version of Solaris. > Even if > Sun stops supporting Lustre development on Linux, its GPL open source,

Re: [CentOS] RE: Largish filesystems [was Re: XFS install issue]

2008-06-02 Thread Alain Terriault
Just wondering if any one ever consider/use Coraid for massive storage under CentOS? http://www.coraid.com It seems like a very reasonable option.. comments ? I$ilon could also be a option for petabytes storage http://www.isilon.com/products/index.php [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To start I wish

Re: [CentOS] RE: Largish filesystems [was Re: XFS install issue]

2008-06-02 Thread John R Pierce
Lundgren, Andrew wrote: Lustre only runs on Linux. RH5 is fully supported. (And it works fine with CentOS 5.) My personal guess (and probably more than a few others) is that Sun is interested in taking the clustering functionality that underlies Lustre and integrating it with ZFS for a

Re: [CentOS] RE: Largish filesystems [was Re: XFS install issue]

2008-06-02 Thread John R Pierce
Bent Terp wrote: Lustre? there's also the commercial IBrix Fusion distributed file system. I've only seen demos and done a paper eval for a project that never materialized, it looked very interesting, but our requirements shifted, so we never got past the initial research stage... Its

RE: [CentOS] RE: Largish filesystems [was Re: XFS install issue]

2008-06-02 Thread Lundgren, Andrew
Lustre only runs on Linux. RH5 is fully supported. (And it works fine with CentOS 5.) > > > On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 7:48 PM, Ross S. W. Walker > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > As for file systems there is only really one for that scenario, > > > GFS, as OCFSv1 only goes up to 8TB and OCFSv2 is

RE: [CentOS] RE: Largish filesystems [was Re: XFS install issue]

2008-06-02 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Bent Terp wrote: > On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 7:48 PM, Ross S. W. Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As for file systems there is only really one for that scenario, > > GFS, as OCFSv1 only goes up to 8TB and OCFSv2 is still a > > technology preview. Besides GFS is included in the distro! > > Lustr

Re: [CentOS] RE: Largish filesystems [was Re: XFS install issue]

2008-06-02 Thread Bent Terp
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 7:48 PM, Ross S. W. Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As for file systems there is only really one for that scenario, > GFS, as OCFSv1 only goes up to 8TB and OCFSv2 is still a > technology preview. Besides GFS is included in the distro! Lustre? ___

RE: [CentOS] RE: Largish filesystems [was Re: XFS install issue]

2008-06-02 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If there was a way to create a Linux (Centos) 100TB - > 500TB or larger clustered file system with the nodes > connected via infiniband that was easily manageable with > throughput that can support multiple 10Gbps Ethernet > connections I would be very interested. C