Re: [Lustre-discuss] Gluster then DRBD now Lustre?

2008-06-24 Thread Andreas Dilger
On Jun 17, 2008 10:40 -0500, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: > If you have a dedicated gigabit link (no congestion), InfiniBand might > work pretty well. I've used the Obsidian Longbow IB WAN extenders, and > got better performance using IB than over TCP. I believe there is also a > version that does AES

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Gluster then DRBD now Lustre?

2008-06-17 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 11:55:12AM -0700, Kilian CAVALOTTI wrote: > On Monday 16 June 2008 11:40:40 am Andreas Dilger wrote: > > > NYC == New York City? What > > > is SJC? > > > > SJC == San Jose, California > > That's why I thought, but if so, the following part loses me: > > > This is working

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Gluster then DRBD now Lustre?

2008-06-17 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 08:51 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > So any node does you lose the data? I will parse that as "so if you lose any node, you lose data?" and the answer to that is yes. If you lose an OST, you lose data. If you lose the MDT you lose the entire filesystem. Lustre assume

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Gluster then DRBD now Lustre?

2008-06-17 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 16:36 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Ok, so in the original email east to west was what we originally wanted to > do but realized that would not be possible because of round trip delay > even over gig e. You have a dedicated gige pipe from the east coast to the west c

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Gluster then DRBD now Lustre?

2008-06-17 Thread nathan
On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Cliff White wrote: > UmmLustre is not a replacement for DRBD, so we're very confused over > here. Lustre is a way of making a big distributed filesystem out of a bunch > of storage nodes. We don't do replication, it's basically RAID 0. So any node does you lose the data

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Gluster then DRBD now Lustre?

2008-06-16 Thread Cliff White
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Kilian CAVALOTTI wrote: > >> On Monday 16 June 2008 11:40:40 am Andreas Dilger wrote: NYC == New York City? What is SJC? >>> SJC == San Jose, California >> That's why I thought, but if so, the following part loses me: >> >>> This is workin

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Gluster then DRBD now Lustre?

2008-06-16 Thread nathan
On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Kilian CAVALOTTI wrote: > On Monday 16 June 2008 11:40:40 am Andreas Dilger wrote: >>> NYC == New York City? What >>> is SJC? >> >> SJC == San Jose, California > > That's why I thought, but if so, the following part loses me: > >> This is working in a test setup, however ther

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Gluster then DRBD now Lustre?

2008-06-16 Thread Kilian CAVALOTTI
On Monday 16 June 2008 11:40:40 am Andreas Dilger wrote: > > NYC == New York City? What > > is SJC? > > SJC == San Jose, California That's why I thought, but if so, the following part loses me: > This is working in a test setup, however there are some down sides. > The first is that DRBD only s

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Gluster then DRBD now Lustre?

2008-06-16 Thread Andreas Dilger
On Jun 16, 2008 11:54 -0400, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 10:34 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Our day one config is two servers with 10TB each in NYC and SJC. > > These are your "file servers"? Are they meant to be servers for users > local (i.e. on a LAN) to them? NYC

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Gluster then DRBD now Lustre?

2008-06-16 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 10:34 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have been spending a lot of time with Gluster, I like it a lot, on the > surface it looks great. I like that I can get RAID 6 like functionality > out of it, however after testing found it is not just ready for prime > time. I will

[Lustre-discuss] Gluster then DRBD now Lustre?

2008-06-16 Thread nathan
I have been spending a lot of time with Gluster, I like it a lot, on the surface it looks great. I like that I can get RAID 6 like functionality out of it, however after testing found it is not just ready for prime time. Our day one config is two servers with 10TB each in NYC and SJC. Origina