[HH] Has anyone seen a solution to this?

[Kurt Keville]

I am looking at putting a cluster together, say 6 nodes with local disk and
1 GigE network port... but instead of having them talk to the head node via
network I want the head node to have 6 connections directly to the hard
drives... I figure this would require some sort of SATA pigtail in the
client nodes, and a 6 node SATA card in the head node, but is there a way
to run an arbitrator on the head node that won't interfere with the
operation of the local disk, since the nodes wouldn't necessarily know
about the head node... this way I remove the need to copy files to the head
node via GigE...

I know I can do parts of this independently... I have a couple of JBOD
boxes here and as long as I can just let the head node know it is a
read-only filesystem I might be in business... especially if I can ensure
that I am not doing head node reads at the same time as client node
writes...
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