Submitted by Red Hat announced on Monday at Oracle’s OpenWorld in San Francisco that Oracle, EMC and Network Appliance now support its Global File System. The file system is based on the several technologies obtained by Red Hat in its 2003 purchase of Minneapolis-based Sistina Software. Red Hat then worked on the code and open-sourced it in June 2004.
Anyone know of a sollution with the following properties?
1. A RAID over lan like ddraid[1]
2. Managed in a way so that _any_ node can go down, without interruption to the RAID array, and when it comes up again it is synced automaticly, possible using a journal to just sync the parts it missed.
3. Reasonably performant on cheap modern hardware
[1] http://sources.redhat.com/cluster/ddraid/
I was thinking that this raid array would be used to hold sharable data between my three home computers (/home,/usr/share,/var/lib?) mosly for backup reasons.
Does anyone know how the GFS stack up against other commercial offerings (IBrix or similar)?