From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx3.redhat.com (mx3.redhat.com [172.16.48.32]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m51L9PGB006850 for ; Sun, 1 Jun 2008 17:09:25 -0400 Received: from smtp-out003.kontent.com (smtp-out003.kontent.com [81.88.40.217]) by mx3.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m51L99b0002504 for ; Sun, 1 Jun 2008 17:09:10 -0400 Message-ID: <48430FED.1080306@theendofthetunnel.de> Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2008 23:09:01 +0200 From: Hannes Dorbath MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Distributed LVM/filesystem/storage References: <20080529231213.GY19431@lug-owl.de> In-Reply-To: <20080529231213.GY19431@lug-owl.de> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-lvm@redhat.com, Maximilian Wilhelm 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