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From: Dan Stromberg <strombrg@dcs.nac.uci.edu>
Subject: Re: Fibre Channel Shared Raid 5
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 12:41:06 -0700
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On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 13:56 +1000, Neil Brown wrote:
> On Sunday August 28, tlg1466@neo.tamu.edu wrote:
> > I recently stumbled upon ddraid.  Would this work at all for what I'm 
> > looking for?
> 
> I'm not certain, but I suspect not.
> 
> The 'dd' stands for 'distributed data'.  You have a cluster where each
> node has one drive, and you use ddraid to combine all these drives
> into an array which can survive as single node dying.  But I *think*
> you still need a master node which runs the array.  Also the slaves
> would need to access the array through the master.
> But as I said, I'm not sure.  You'd need to check with the author I
> guess.

I'm very interested in hearing more about ddraid, if there are folks on
the list who've tried it.

Thanks!