High Density Blade Project
Distributed storage server for the Truely Personal Computer Student Programin category Applications & Software
proposed by digitaldisaster on 16th February 2006
Project Proposal
Distributed storage server for the Truly Personal Computer Student Program [1] also applicable to any other storage environment requiring a cheap end-to-end solution that scales well and provides excellent redundancy and availability.The storage and processing capacity expands simply by adding drive and compute respectively as capacity expands. Data is stored in a similar fashion to RAID 5 or RAID 10 across the storage nodes. The processing nodes make the data available via NFS using the NFS integrated into the Linux kernel [2], SMB using Samba [3] and AFP using Netatalk [4] as well as ensuring that the data is written to and kept synchronised across multiple devices.
All configuration such as managing hot spares, adding and removing devices is managed by a web front end based on Webmin [5] which also provides the ability to view current statistic including device and network load, failed and failing devices, device uptime etc.
[1] http://projects.ppczone.org/projects.php?project=125
[2] http://nfs.sourceforge.net/
[3] http://www.samba.org/
[4] http://netatalk.sourceforge.net/
[5] http://www.webmin.com
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