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using wuala to get distibuted storage over 50 machines in my cluster
Wuala sounds like a great idea. But can I use the core package to just distribute my storage over the free space available in the approximately 50 Linux machines I have? ie. not use it over the internet but just over my private LAN. To store only my own data.
These are 50 computational machines with free space on their HDDs. Just wanted a way to use this space. Essentially this is like 50 computers in a p2p network. Wuala seems like it might be the right tool? Or do people have other suggestions?
These are 50 computational machines with free space on their HDDs. Just wanted a way to use this space. Essentially this is like 50 computers in a p2p network. Wuala seems like it might be the right tool? Or do people have other suggestions?
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Inappropriate?I'm not an expert, but I guess a shared disk file system such as OCFS would probably be better suited for that. On the downside you'd have to reformat the machines to use it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_d...
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Inappropriate?Wuala is not (yet?) Open Source, so you upload all data to some locations around the globe, not to nodes in your local network. If you cut it from the Internet it starts to complain since it relies on the main server from Caleido.
I wanted something similar too (but for Windows... *sigh*) and only found something called StorNext - but I fear it costs a bit since there is no pricing available on the product page (baaad sign!).
For Linux there are several small and large Distributed Filesystem projects for FUSE on Sourceforge, I recommend taking a look there.1 Comment
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Ok, read through StorNext again and it seems to require even a dedicated storage Network, so this is a No-No too...
If someone knows of a filesystem that just can allocate let's say 50 GB on one Disk and 20 on another on each of my computers and show the contents as a single Network share, I'm definetly interested! A modified version of Wuala maybe could do this. -
Inappropriate?I can imagine that Wuala would have a significant overhead when used at LAN speeds; but there are several other distributed file systems specifically designed for high throughput, such as GlusterFS, GFS (Google File System), PVFS (Parallel Virtual File System) and Ceph. -
Inappropriate?Well, none of these are mountable under Windows I fear and they are all more related to clustering soultions. HAMMER (from Dragonfly BSD) sounds nice but is not likely to be useable under Windows in the next few years I fear...
A real filesystem that is as flexible as Wuala in a small (3-4 computers) LAN would be great but is not existent I guess. Would be interesting to code, but I can't program and I don't have enough money to pay someone to do it, so...
