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From: Hannes Dorbath <light@theendofthetunnel.de>
To: linux-lvm@redhat.com, Maximilian Wilhelm <max@rfc2324.org>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Distributed LVM/filesystem/storage
Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2008 23:09:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48430FED.1080306@theendofthetunnel.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080529231213.GY19431@lug-owl.de>

Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> However I still fail to find a good approach. One initial idea was to
> export all physical volumes (partitions or full disks) vie NBD, join
> them all on a single machine into one VG/LV, create a filesystem and
> re-export that via NFS/SMB/...  However, all data would need to go
> through the net twice. While speed isn't the most important thing here
> (but storage is!), that's way suboptimal.

GlusterFS with Unify translator is exactly what you are asking for.

http://www.gluster.org/docs/index.php/GlusterFS


-- 
Best regards,
Hannes Dorbath

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-06-01 21:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-29 23:12 [linux-lvm] Distributed LVM/filesystem/storage Jan-Benedict Glaw
2008-05-30  8:03 ` Gerrard Geldenhuis
2008-05-31  7:03   ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2008-06-01  0:42     ` Stuart D. Gathman
2008-06-01 18:26       ` David Brown
2008-06-01  4:12     ` Wendy Cheng
2008-06-01  7:07       ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2008-06-01 13:50         ` Wendy Cheng
2008-06-01 15:56           ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2008-06-01 21:09 ` Hannes Dorbath [this message]
2008-06-01 23:00   ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2008-06-02 13:01     ` Greg Freemyer

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