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fly
04-06-2006, 04:43 PM
I'm looking for some distributed datastore software. Basically, our PCs at the office come with WAY more storage than the average user would ever need. I would like to reclaim some of that space for network storage. Maybe set aside 10GB on all computers, sorta like M$ DFS, sorta like a reverse peer-2-peer, sorta like Freenet. Anyone got any ideas?
April40
04-06-2006, 04:45 PM
Limewire.
inline4
04-06-2006, 04:45 PM
get them smaller hard drives??

Remove a platter and build 1 super drive??

How the F should i know..

Map drives.. shit..
inline4
04-06-2006, 04:45 PM
Limewire.
seriously..
do what you do best.

STFU and stick something up your bum.

:D

:heart:
itburnswhenipee
04-06-2006, 04:49 PM
I'm not convinced that what you want to do is a good idea. Do you really want uptime critical systems in the hands of your users?
JPatrick
04-06-2006, 04:51 PM
KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF MY HDD U DAMN DIRTY APE!
ERage
04-06-2006, 04:51 PM
I'm not convinced that what you want to do is a good idea. Do you really want uptime critical systems in the hands of your users?
CletusJones
04-06-2006, 04:52 PM
I'm not convinced that what you want to do is a good idea. Do you really want uptime critical systems in the hands of your users?
this man speaks the truth. users are stupid in general, that's a pretty big gamble to put sensative data on their drives.
JPatrick
04-06-2006, 04:53 PM
If I knew that shit was on my hdd Id delete it just to piss you off:fly:
itburnswhenipee
04-06-2006, 04:54 PM
Here's something the seems pretty close to what you want:
http://www.danga.com/mogilefs/

The caveat? Linux, of course.

Pretty slick, nonetheless. I guess if you had a pile of old workstations you could set them all up to run this and have a reasonably redundant network file system.
April40
04-06-2006, 04:54 PM
seriously..
do what you do best.

STFU and stick something up your bum.

:D

:heart:


You don't have to put a heart behind everything you say, you pussy.
inline4
04-06-2006, 04:55 PM
seriously.. putting any kind of sensitive information on a users machine..
1. do they get backed up
2. what if they shut them down at night like most do.
inline4
04-06-2006, 04:56 PM
You don't have to put a heart behind everything you say, you pussy.


fine then.. FUCK OFF
fly
04-06-2006, 04:56 PM
I'm not convinced that what you want to do is a good idea. Do you really want uptime critical systems in the hands of your users?
No. I want it for backups of PCs and software installs, where it isnt critical that the files be there. I would also prefer that the file be copied to more than one PC for redundancy.
inline4
04-06-2006, 04:57 PM
No. I want it for backups of PCs and software installs, where it isnt critical that the files be there. I would also prefer that the file be copied to more than one PC for redundancy.
Sounds like you guys have a shit network infastructure to begin with..
fly
04-06-2006, 04:57 PM
seriously.. putting any kind of sensitive information on a users machine..
1. do they get backed up
2. what if they shut them down at night like most do.
Encrypt it.

I dont need the files at night.
fly
04-06-2006, 04:58 PM
Sounds like you guys have a shit network infastructure to begin with..
How does any of this have to do with network infrastructure?
ERage
04-06-2006, 04:58 PM
fine then.. F*CK OFF :heart:

fixt
itburnswhenipee
04-06-2006, 04:59 PM
No. I want it for backups of PCs and software installs, where it isnt critical that the files be there. I would also prefer that the file be copied to more than one PC for redundancy.

Well, set up that mogfileFS thing on a linux box, configure a NSF client on each of your workstations, and go to town.

Alternately you could use a backup tape like the rest of the world.
April40
04-06-2006, 05:01 PM
fine then.. FUCK OFF


Your balls are finally dropping.
April40
04-06-2006, 05:01 PM
fixt


That's more like it, LOL
CletusJones
04-06-2006, 05:02 PM
No. I want it for backups of PCs and software installs, where it isnt critical that the files be there. I would also prefer that the file be copied to more than one PC for redundancy.
wouldn't it be easier to just purchase more hard drives for your servers?
fly
04-06-2006, 05:03 PM
Well, set up that mogfileFS thing on a linux box, configure a NSF client on each of your workstations, and go to town.

Alternately you could use a backup tape like the rest of the world.
To get anything done around here, including getting storage, is retarded. All sorts of political wrangling. We have petabytes of storage, but none is easily available to me.
fly
04-06-2006, 05:03 PM
wouldn't it be easier to just purchase more hard drives for your servers?
yes, but see above.
itburnswhenipee
04-06-2006, 05:04 PM
To get anything done around here, including getting storage, is retarded. All sorts of political wrangling. We have petabytes of storage, but none is easily available to me.

Ah... I see. You've mislead us. You presented this as a technical problem. Clearly it's a meatware issue.
fly
04-06-2006, 05:05 PM
Ah... I see. You've mislead us. You presented this as a technical problem. Clearly it's a meatware issue.
:lol:
CletusJones
04-06-2006, 05:16 PM
yes, but see above.
that must be nice, we have no storage. they skimp on everything here.

They yelled at me because i have 4GB of backed up data on one of the network servers. They claim it was "taking up too much space so that branch personnell won't have enough space." Who puts a server in with only 200gb of disk? I mean, seriously?
itburnswhenipee
04-06-2006, 05:18 PM
Who puts a server in with only 200gb of disk? I mean, seriously?

You tell us. You're the one who appears to work for them.
fly
04-06-2006, 05:20 PM
that must be nice, we have no storage. they skimp on everything here.

They yelled at me because i have 4GB of backed up data on one of the network servers. They claim it was "taking up too much space so that branch personnell won't have enough space." Who puts a server in with only 200gb of disk? I mean, seriously?
Yeah, but storage is just as inaccessable for me as it is for you. I think I'm getting 2 300GB hard drives and a gigbit switch. All ordered because its way too damn hard to get space (its all mainframe space, DASD I think its called...)
CletusJones
04-06-2006, 05:25 PM
You tell us. You're the one who appears to work for them.
I just work here. I had to fight for 6 months to get a replacement monitor because mine was so blurry I could barely read it.
CletusJones
04-06-2006, 05:26 PM
Yeah, but storage is just as inaccessable for me as it is for you. I think I'm getting 2 300GB hard drives and a gigbit switch. All ordered because its way too damn hard to get space (its all mainframe space, DASD I think its called...)
Wild. Our mainframe runs a SAN full of EMC drives and stores all its data there.

edit: that's the only thing they didn't skrimp on
fly
04-06-2006, 10:59 PM
Wild. Our mainframe runs a SAN full of EMC drives and stores all its data there.

edit: that's the only thing they didn't skrimp on
Yeah, they will spend tens of millions of dollars on the mainframe side, but I'll be damned if I can get a terabyte of their storage...
mikey
04-07-2006, 03:23 AM
we have a separate server at work for our music and thievery, no shens :lol:
Onnotangu
04-08-2006, 01:36 AM
bad idea. i have paranoid users..and I'm the only one with access to the data and those silly fucks still try to set bios passwords.

i hate people.
Onnotangu
04-08-2006, 01:41 AM
that must be nice, we have no storage. they skimp on everything here.

They yelled at me because i have 4GB of backed up data on one of the network servers. They claim it was "taking up too much space so that branch personnell won't have enough space." Who puts a server in with only 200gb of disk? I mean, seriously?
tell the branch personell to stop trying to back up thier entire hard drive every night like a bunch of retarted lemmings.
djduquet
04-09-2006, 05:44 PM
fixt
ha, pussy.
fly
04-09-2006, 06:05 PM
bad idea. i have paranoid users..and I'm the only one with access to the data and those silly fucks still try to set bios passwords.

i hate people.
Set a setup password in the BIOS so they can't change anything. Thats what we do...
SchmilK
04-10-2006, 05:27 PM
No. I want it for backups of PCs and software installs, where it isnt critical that the files be there. I would also prefer that the file be copied to more than one PC for redundancy.

Get yourself some Acronis Disk Image..that will allow you to repartition the harddrive and store a full image of the system drive in a hidden, secure partition..WAAAY better than any backup solution..well until the harddrive dies...but you can have windows do incremental images so it updates the image file with the changes made..that way if a user crashes windows, you just load up the recovery cd and tell it to rebuild the C: drive. That would be your best use of the available space.

I do NOT suggest using those drives as "network drives"...harddrives are dirt cheap! If you need another network drive, go buy one and plug it into the server..better yet buy 2 and mirror them.