[wplug] Thoughts on a Storage System

[DK]

Mike,

My knowledge of large scale storage is rather limited.  So I decided
to attempt to educate myself.

Have you seen EVMS, http://evms.sourceforge.net/?

Dave


On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Michael Semcheski
<mhsemcheski at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Michael Skowvron
> <michaels at penguincentral.org> wrote:
>> Why are you looking for a distributed data solution? I'm curious why a traditional or
>> monolithic shared or clustered storage system does not fit your needs.
>
> I thought of another way of answering this.  In the end, what I need
> is a system that allows me to use lots of hard disks through a unified
> interface.  Its either going to require hardware and fancy software,
> or fancy hardware and software.  Given those two options, especially
> if there is an open source software solution, the fancy software is
> going to be better bang for the buck.
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