[ale] School Project to Create Distributed Filesystem

[Omar Chanouha]

Greg/All, Let me get one more shot at the belt.

Have a cluster of servers each sharing their files via iSCSI. Each
server then keeps an array of all the other servers via mdraid.
Linux-HA is used on the servers to maintain an up-to-date array of
iSCSI drives. Each server shares the combined RAID via an nfs server.
When a client wants to connect, all it needs to do is connect to one
of the servers over nfs and it will have all the files.

As you said, the robustness comes into play with the mdraid update
scripts/making nfs work properly.

Is that right?

I will have to ask the teacher if he will allow that. He may not.

Thanks,

-OFosho, Miami Dolphin and Open Source Aficionado

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 7:26 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/2/24 Ken Ratliff <forsaken at targaryen.us>:
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>> On Feb 24, 2009, at 8:25 PM, Brian Pitts wrote:
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>> Another one worth checking out is gluster. It uses FUSE.
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>> http://www.gluster.org/
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>> Gluster is.... finicky. We have it deployed in a few production clusters and
>> it works well when it's working, but when it breaks, it tends to break hard.
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> Sounds like a good project for students to work on :-) It needs help.
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