Scott Moseley
2006-May-19 07:36 UTC
[Lustre-discuss] Linux cluster question from a newbie (please be gentle)
Just a quick question. I was reading over your site, and I''m EXTREMELY new to the whole clustering idea (both Linux and M$ "where do you want to be forced to go today?"). I took the past 2 months to learn how to install, and play with Linux, and I''m an old hand @ anything M$. I''m unhappy with M$s excuse for clustering biased on performance. I''m looking to make a home network storage cluster (I''m still a student, and my fiancé can''t for some reason see me spending $1,000 on a 1Tb storage solution when I bitch about her getting her nails done). Basically I''d like to put my 3 AMD K7 850Mhz systems to work as a storage cluster with network RAID 5. I was thinking by the time I was finished I could have 3 boxes with 1Tb per box (if I do it slowly, she won''t notice). My MAIN problems are as follows.... The one large drive needs to be the following... - accessible as one logical network drive under WinNT - preferably easy to set up and add nodes (kind of like M$ does with just entering the creditentals and it adds what ever drives you want graphically) - Scaleable across dissimilar equipment - no fancy hacking of the kernel (I''m not that good yet). I hope I haven''t given you an impossible set of things to work with. I know that the interconnects between the systems (SAN) will have to be dedicated gigabit nodes, and the connection the the network will ALSO have to be gigabit connections to get any speed out of it. I look forward to hearing from you. Thanks again. -Scott (formally from www.penn-tawsha.net <http://www.penn-tawsha.net/> (still looking for a static IP solution)