[Pvfs2-users] Pvfs2 questions

[Murali Vilayannur]

Hi Steve,
Someone else had asked us earlier on using pvfs2 as a backend for a music farm.
http://www.mail-archive.com/pvfs2-users@beowulf-underground.org/msg00422.html

Over and beyond what is mentioned in the thread, another issue to consider is:
since we don't have a volume manager it is not really possible to grow
the storage space online. it is possible to umount the storage space,
add new servers and restart everything.
but there will be some downtime.

if your music files are not going to change once encoded/ripped and if
I can whip up the client-side immutable file cache patches into shape,
we should get get pretty decent performance for your workload even
with the samba/nfs re-export.

another alternative is to probably use pNFS with pvfs2 as the backend
which might cache client-side data traffic as well, not sure about the
caching aspect though..
Hope this helps,
good luck,
Murali

On 12/28/06, Steve <steve at bov.nu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Its my desire to have a storage system that I can grow for music and video
> using old computers mapped to windows machine using samba. Done with a
> hobbyist budget. Can pvfs2 do that ? Or pointers to anything else ?
>
> Whats the best/easiest distro to have a go at with for a novice ?
>
> Steve.
>
>
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