[Beowulf] distributed file storage solution?

Eric Thibodeau kyron at neuralbs.com
Mon Dec 11 16:32:43 PST 2006


You can look into OpenAFS but be warned that you have to know infrastructure software quite well (LDAP+kerberos). It's cross-platform, can be distributed but don't think it's up to multiple writes on different mirrors though.

Le vendredi 8 décembre 2006 21:36, samit a écrit :
> hello list,
> 
> i am looking for a application (most preferably, but not necessarily OSS or
> free software) and that can create distributed, reliable, fault tolerant,
> decentralized, high preformance file server. I've looked at few P2P file
> storing solutions that store multiple copies of file in different server for
> data reliability but i havent found any solution that would help me access a
> file as flexibly like the local file with high preformance. Cross platform
> solution would be even better as i want to aovoid the SMB overhead if its
> just a linux based solution!
> 
> PLEASE RECOMENT ME SOMETHING!? feel free to suggest any solutions that even
> qualifies half of this criteria!
> 
> -bipin
> 

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