On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 05:03:39PM -0700, Erich Weiler wrote: > I need to be clear on this before putting a lot of time into it, but it > sounds like this might be a good solution for our firm, as we have a 200 > node cluster each with one 500GB disk, 400GB of which can be leveraged > to a massive parallel file system (400GB x 200 nodes = one big ~80TB > distributed file system). But that assumes that there is no redundancy, > other wise that 80TB would be more like 50-60TB max or something because > there would be some redundancy in there... ?
Murali's explanation is spot-on: no software-based reduncancy scheme. For users concerned with redundancy, we suggest hardware failover to shared storage, which works quite well. ==rob -- Rob Latham Mathematics and Computer Science Division A215 0178 EA2D B059 8CDF Argonne National Lab, IL USA B29D F333 664A 4280 315B _______________________________________________ Pvfs2-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.beowulf-underground.org/mailman/listinfo/pvfs2-users
