Distributed Storage Systems for Linux? 52
elambrecht asks: "We've got a _lot_ of data we'd like to archive and make sure it is accessible via the web 24/7. We've been using a NetApp for this, but that solution is just waaaay to expensive to scale. We want to move to using a cluster of Linux boxes that redundantly store and serve up the data. What are the best packages out there for this? GFS? MogileFS?"
AFS ?? (Score:4, Interesting)
Ask Google (Score:3, Interesting)
Converting extra Windows(tm) workstation space? (Score:5, Interesting)
A barely-related subject - I've been wondering whether there's some way to collect the unused space on all the Windows workstations around here into a shared space for storage.
This is purely a speculative exercise, but I keep wondering if some combination of:
Yes, I know it's kind of silly, and performance seems like it would be pretty pathetic, but the more I think about it, the more I want to see if I could actually do it (think pretty much the same mindset that the IP-over-carrier-pigeon guys had...)
Heck, it might conceivably actually WORK for a large-but-infrequently-accessed historical repository or something...
Or has someone already started some sort of "Virtual ATA-over-ethernet-from-a-file driver for Windows" project and spoiled my fun?...
Re:Converting extra Windows(tm) workstation space? (Score:3, Interesting)
http://perlfs.sourceforge.net/ [sourceforge.net]
Build it first, optimize later.
FYI.. The multi-threaded filesystem version exists, I just haven't bundled it up pretty for distribution. Now someone needs to create a multi-threaded samba to share it out.