Brandon High wrote:
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 4:48 AM, kilamanjaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Is ZFS ready today to link a set of dispersed desktop computers (diverse
operating systems) into a distributed RAID volume that supports desktops
It sounds like you'd want to use something like Lustre or Hadoop, both
of which are only supported on Linux.
I remember there being an application in the Windows 95/98 timeframe
that did what you want, but do idea on what it was called, how well it
worked, or if it still exists.
-B
I remember that Win95/98 tool as well. It was advertised in the product
catalogs of the day (~1996/1997/1998) like TigerDirect or PCConnection,
etc. It let you create a shared storage drive that used space on
multiple computers on the network, without needing all the PCs to be on
at the same time. FWIW, the Google File System uses a policy of simply
keeping 3 copies of everything. The suggested scenario should
definitely use multiple drive mirrors vdevs, and if they're done as
files on CIFS/SMB shares, that iscsi delay mentioned in this thread may
not occur.
-hk.
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