[Gllug] [OT] Re: cheap disk source

[John Hearns]

Going slightly off topic on this one,
for high end parallel filesystems we supply and support Panasas
(I've recently done their systems support engineer course).

www.panasas.com
Object-oriented filesystem, which writes files across the storage 
cluster as either RAID0 (for small files) or RAID5 (larger files).
It scales like nobodys business, as you can add further storage blades 
and director blades (metadata servers) to spread the load.

The relevance to uptime is that if you include three director blades in 
the system, they can be formed into a high-availability cluster.


We also have Lustre installations, with failover metadata servers, too 
so we aren't one-size-fits-all.
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