On Tuesday 10 January 2006 21:58, Dinesh Joshi wrote: > You can use ClusterKnoppix to try out setting up the cluster. It > rocks. It's a live CD with OpenMosix. You can instantly setup a > cluster! i have tried it. But I didn't have much hardware to do > some realworld testing. Two computers dont exactly make up a > cluster :) > > Once you are satisfied with the results, you can install whichever > distro you like on the harddisks. Also remember to use XFS, Reiser > FS while setting up the cluster. These are very good high > performance FSs. Ext2Fs, lets just say is a wee bit slow. But > nevertheless I use it on my desktop and laptop. My debian server > (P1 166MMX) ran both EXT2FS and XFS both and there is a noticable > difference between the performance. XFS works much faster than > EXT2FS on it ;)
Xfs / jfs. Reiserfs is not as fast particularly on large files. Moreover the developer Hans Reiser seems to have continuos problems with the kernel developers. I however use reiserfs extensively and found it to be extraordinarily reliable under extreme conditions. -- rgds jtd -- rgds jtd -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
