Ocfs2 users - Nov 2006 - Newbie questions -- is OCFS2 what I even want?

Dear Sirs and Madams,

I run a small visual effects production company, Hammerhead Productions.

We'd like to have an easily extensible inexpensive relatively
high-performance
storage network using open-source components.  I was hoping that OCFS2
would be that system.

I have a half-dozen 2 TB fileservers I'd like the rest of the network to see
as a single 12 TB disk, with the aggregate throughput of the six servers
serving some 50 compute nodes on the network.

Is this what OCFS2 is for, or not?  My guess is that it isn't, but I'm
having
a hard time parsing the documentation.  If it isn't what OCFS2 is for, what
am I looking for?

Thanks,

Thad Beier

-- 
Thad Beier
Hammerhead Productions
thadbeier@gmail.com
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Hello,
 
you could use OCFS2 for it, however you will need to reconfigure your
storage: The Disks must be available to all Servers (in a SAN for
example). You could maybe do something with network devices (iSCSI) but
I guess thats not the perfect throughput. 
 
The question is if your clients who access the file will directly be
part of the OCFS2 cluster (direct access to the SAN which is fast but
expensve), or if you have a limited number of OCFS2 nodes exorting a
network filesystem like NFS or (maybe) samba to your workstations.
 
Gruss
Bernd

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Subject: [Ocfs2-users] Newbie questions -- is OCFS2 what I even want?


Dear Sirs and Madams,

I run a small visual effects production company, Hammerhead Productions.

We'd like to have an easily extensible inexpensive relatively
high-performance
storage network using open-source components.  I was hoping that OCFS2 
would be that system.

I have a half-dozen 2 TB fileservers I'd like the rest of the network to
see
as a single 12 TB disk, with the aggregate throughput of the six servers
serving some 50 compute nodes on the network. 

Is this what OCFS2 is for, or not?  My guess is that it isn't, but I'm
having
a hard time parsing the documentation.  If it isn't what OCFS2 is for,
what
am I looking for?

Thanks,

Thad Beier

-- 
Thad Beier
Hammerhead Productions
thadbeier@gmail.com 
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You are probably looking for a distributed file system. Check
out afs and/or v9fs.

Thad Beier wrote:
> Dear Sirs and Madams,
>
> I run a small visual effects production company, Hammerhead Productions.
>
> We'd like to have an easily extensible inexpensive relatively 
> high-performance
> storage network using open-source components.  I was hoping that OCFS2
> would be that system.
>
> I have a half-dozen 2 TB fileservers I'd like the rest of the network 
> to see
> as a single 12 TB disk, with the aggregate throughput of the six servers
> serving some 50 compute nodes on the network.
>
> Is this what OCFS2 is for, or not?  My guess is that it isn't, but
I'm
> having
> a hard time parsing the documentation.  If it isn't what OCFS2 is for, 
> what
> am I looking for?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Thad Beier
>
> -- 
> Thad Beier
> Hammerhead Productions
> thadbeier@gmail.com <mailto:thadbeier@gmail.com>
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