On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 11:45, Alexander Gabert wrote: > hi, > > after i have moved to a new home and made some room on my servers for > installation of test machines, i will be able to look at OpenSSI and > lustre in the context of putting some or all of this functionality into > the Gentoo distribution.
This is great news! > > You are very welcome to help me test and evaluate the basic components > of such a setup: I would be happy to help. > > OpenSSI for cluster failovering services (LinuxVirtualServer too?) > Lustre or OpenGFS for common background filesystem present on all > servers for all services (best would be inexpensive nonSAN technology > like local disks which is what Lustre provides, OpenGFS works with > shared scsi and/or SAN hardware i think...) > > Maybe looking at this all together in a more program oriented approach, > like clustering apache or mysql for example, would also help and benefit > the Gentoo distribution! While Lustre works well for clusters, but it can also be used as a general network file system. So I'm not sure where it should/would fall. Maybe just a file system or network file system group? > > Thanks for your interest in the software and i hope we will do some work > together ;-) > Likewise! > Alex > > On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 01:48, Pavlica, Nick wrote: > > All, > > I'm trying to find a distribution that would be > > willing to add Lustre file system support (it requires > > a kernel patch). If this group is interested, then I > > may be able to gather some resources to help add the > > support. It has recently reached production > > status(1.0), and would be a valuable tool to many in > > the linux community. > > > > http://www.lustre.org > > > > Please let me know if there is any interest. > > > > Thanks! > > Nick Pavlica > > > > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Nick -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
