GlusterFS Again…

I have been meaning to get back into my workings in glusterfs but my 2 machines I had built previously for testing have been used in other places.  One is in pieces on my office floor and the other went to my wife for her school projects.  My office machines have dwindled down as well.  My options there are severely limited.  I have a spare server I use for testing that would be overkill for a node, however all the other machines I have around the office are crap.  Now that I’m thinking about it, there’s an old server I have just sitting around.  I was looking at it the other day wondering if I should just throw it out.  It’s nothing fancy by any means.  If I remember correctly, it’s a dual PII-400 with 384MB ram.  It’s nothing that great but as long as I have a fast enough network controller in it and enough drives, it should be fine.  I’ll start working on that soon.  For now I’m still writing scripts around the office to save people time for repetitive tasks.