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 did some searching.and found the product you and I were thinking of.
It was called Medley97 and versions definitely existed for Windows 95
and NT. It let you pool storage from many desktops, and attempted to
always keep at least two copies of something available online.
Here's info on it and some other similar software (see the Hadoop
compatibility and Lustre w/ZFS notes too):
Medley97
"Medley97 is a virtually zero-administration, plug-and-play network
operating system that creates a pooled network drive and disk cache from
unused disk space and free memory on workstations. Available: Now (well
if you live in 1997, that is). $695 per server MangoSoft Corp. (888)
88-MANGO; fax (508) 898-9166 [EMAIL PROTECTED] or www.mango.com"
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=447752&threshold=1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&cid=22367030
Medley97 takes distributed computing a step further
http://www.mangosoft.com/news/pa/pa_0002_-_INFOWorld_-_distributed_computing.asp
Mango's Medley97 Achieves Best of COMDEX Honors
http://www.mangosoft.com/news/pr/19971124.asp
Mango pooling is the biggest idea we've seen since network computers
http://www.mangosoft.com/news/pa/pa_0009_-_infoworld_-_mango_pooling.asp
http://www.networkcomputing.com/902/902ff.html
MojoNation ... Corporate Backup Tool?
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?no_d2=1&sid=02/07/18/0244256
"Mango Medley 97 did this 5 years ago"
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=36257&threshold=1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&no_d2=1&cid=3907959
FreeLoader : Scavenged Distributed Storage System
http://www.ece.ubc.ca/~samera/projects/freeloader/
http://www.csm.ornl.gov/~vazhkuda/Morsels/
vanDisk: An Exploration in Peer-To-Peer Collaborative Back-Up Storage
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/login.jsp?url=/iel5/4232658/4232659/04232719.pdf?tp=&isnumber=&arnumber=4232719
http://www.ece.ubc.ca/~matei/496/OldProjects/2007.04-vanDisk-ArminBahramshahry.pdf
Making Use of Terabytes of Unused Storage
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/09/1319258
Hadoop
http://hadoop.apache.org/core/
http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/ProjectDescription
1. What is Hadoop?
Hadoop is a distributed computing platform written in Java. It
incorporates features similar to those of the Google File System and
of MapReduce. For some details, see HadoopMapReduce.
2. What platform does Hadoop run on?
Java 1.5.x or higher, preferably from Sun
Linux and Windows are the supported operating systems, but BSD and Mac
OS/X are known to work. (Windows requires the installation of Cygwin).
Lustre
http://wiki.lustre.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
"Lustre is a scalable, secure, robust, highly-available cluster file
system. It is designed, developed and maintained by Sun Microsystems, Inc. "
"Even before the acquisition, Sun declared its intentions to marry
Lustre to its own ZFS file system to produce a general-purpose,
high-capacity parallel file system solution. ZFS is Sun's Solaris-based
file system for applications that require very large storage capacity.
For true scalability, the only element missing was a clustering
capability, which they now have in Lustre."
http://www.hpcwire.com/blogs/17903424.html
"Lustre 1.8 will allow users to choose between ZFS and ldiskfs as
back-end storage."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lustre_(file_system)#ZFS_integration
Lustre to run on ZFS (3/26/2008)
"The development teams hopes to get a version of the ZFS-compatible
Lustre released by the end of the year. "
http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/46011-1.html
-hk
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