[Beowulf] network filesystem

[Stu Midgley]

I'd strongly recommend Lustre.  It will work perfectly well from a
single server node and give much higher bandwidths than NFS.  If you
have two nic's you can also serve up the file system over both and see
around 150MB/s total bandwidth.

Also, if you need more storage in the future, you can just add more
servers... and get linear scaling of bandwidth.

Stu.


On 3/1/07, jaime.perea at gmail.com <jaime.perea at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a small (16 dual xeon machines) cluster. We are going to add
> an additional machine which is only going to serve a big filesystem via
> a gigabit interface.
>
> Does anybody knows what is better for a cluster of this size, exporting the
> filesystem via NFS or use another alternative such as a cluster filesystem
> like GFS or OCFS?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
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>
>            Jaime D. Perea Duarte. <jaime at iaa dot es>
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>
>            Dep. Astrofisica Extragalactica.
>            Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia (CSIC)
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