HPC and zfs.

[Peter Ankerstål]

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Peter Ankerstål
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On 6 feb 2012, at 18:31, Julian Elischer wrote:

> On 2/6/12 9:24 AM, Michael Fuckner wrote:
>> On 02/06/2012 05:41 PM, Freddie Cash wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>>> On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 8:22 AM, Jeremy Chadwick
>>> <freebsd at jdc.parodius.com>  wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 04:52:11PM +0100, Peter Ankerst?l wrote:
>>>>> I want to investigate if it is possible to create your own usable
>>>>> HPC storage using zfs and some network filesystem like nfs.If you use Supermicro I would use X8DTH-iF, some LSI HBA (9200-8e, 2x Multilane external) and some JBOD-Chassis (like SUpermicro 847E16-RJBOD1)
>> 
> 
> no-one seems to have mentioned the obvious route..
> 
> a cluster of machines, using the new iSCSI code to make some of them subservient to the others.
> 
I have thought about iSCSI but will this actually scale meta data performance?