On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 16:21 +0100, Bruce Becker wrote: > Hi > > If I understand it properly, you have several disks in several > machines, right ? I wonder if you shouldn't create a RAID'ed > filesystem per node and then integrate them into PVFS ? > > Otherwise, if you have time on your hands, you might look at > clusterRAID, from uni-heidelberg > http://www.kip.uni-heidelberg.de/ti/ClusterRAID/ > > This is a highly stable, distributed, redundant file system using endb... Bruce, this looks interesting. I cannot see a good overview on the site though. I'm familiar with using drbd http://www.drbd.org At first look this seems to be using a similar endb network block device to have RAID 5 storage with the drives being located on different machines on the network. Maybe I have picked this up wrong. Also the 'precise accounting patch' is available for 2.6.7 Is this necessary for using the filesystem?