[wplug] Thoughts on a Storage System

[Michael Semcheski]

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org> wrote:
> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 01:32:29PM -0400, Michael Semcheski wrote:
>> Anybody have any thoughts?  Know of something that does what we want,
>> or something similar?
>
> Have you looked at Lustre?  I'm not sure what's going to happen to it
> after Oracle buys Sun, but it is certainly something that can meet a
> lot of your needs.

I had been looking at Lustre, and its on the list of things to read
more about.  One concern I had was that if the MDS node goes down,
things get hairy.  You can have redundant MDS nodes, but may have
required shared storage via fibre channel or iscsi.  That is typically
expensive.