[Pvfs2-users] pvfs2 as 15T filesystem

[Chuck]

Hello,
  I am in the process of ordering 5 3T 1U machines. I was originally
going to try to use gfs in this cluster to create a large contiguous
filesystem  for my users. The gfs irc gents told me that their product
was not designed for this, at least not at my scale. I need it to scale
out to 120T possibly. I'm thinking of using pvfs2 as my filesystem. I've
looked at gfs, pvfs2, and lustre, but I like pvfs2 the most because I
can actually compile and run it pretty simply. Unfortunately, there
isn't really system level fallbacks, so if one of my nodes goes, so too
does my fs, and of course I cant store a db on it, which might be nice.
What do people out there suggest? Is there something else better for my
purposes? I'm not storing homes on this fs, though that might be nice,
mostly I'll be storing images and text files. Thanks for any comments!
  -Chuck