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Building a Massive Single Volume Storage Solution?
An anonymous reader asks: "I've been asked to build a massive storage solution to scale from an initial threshold of 25TB to 1PB, primarily on commodity hardware and software. Based on my past experience and research, the commercial offerings for such a solution becomes cost prohibitive, and the budget for the solution is fairly small. Some the technologies that I've been scoping out are iSCSI, AoE and plain clustered/grid computers with JBOD (just a bunch of disks). Personally I'm more inclined on a grid cluster with 1GB interface where each node will have about 1-2TB of disk space and each node is based on a 'low' power consumption architecture. Next issue to tackle is finding a file system that could span across all the nodes and yet appear as a single volume to the application servers. At this point data redundancy is not a priority, however it will have to be addressed. My research has not yielded any viable open source alternative (unless Google releases GoogleFS) and I've researched into Lustre, xFS and PVFS. There some interesting commercial products such as the File Director from NeoPath Networks and a few others; however the cost is astronomical.
I would like to know if any Slashdot readers have any experience in build out such a solution? Any help/idea(s) would be greatly appreciated!"
You should ask Zonk. He seems to think his nex door neighbor's 14 year old kid's snatch is the perfict "High Capacity Storage" location.
I agree with you. It sounds like whoever this is got in over his head, and is now asking /. to solve his problems for him.
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Hey asshole, if you don't want to read peoples' questions, go to your preferences and turn off the AskSlashdot section. Since you're so smart, you should have been able to figure this out instead of making this dumb fuck post of yours. Nobody needs your condescending ass here anyway.