[CentOS] clustered file system of choice

Wed Jun 16 20:12:40 UTC 2010
Todd Denniston <Todd.Denniston at tsb.cranrdte.navy.mil>

Boris Epstein wrote, On 06/16/2010 03:33 PM:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am just trying to consider my options for storing a large mass of
> data (tens of terrabytes of files) and one idea is to build a
> clustered FS of some kind. Has anybody had any experience with that?
> Any recommendations?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any and all advice.
> 
> Boris.

I have not used a cluster FS, but have seen some discussions of them over on the drbd list[1] , and
you did not mention what kind of backing devices you were going to have for the filesystem.
In the drbd documentation[2] they have some discussion of gfs and ocfs2 which may be of some help.

In short if you are considering DRBD as a backing device, definitely ask over on their mailing list
and I suspect that mailing list population has a higher percentage of folks who use cluster FSs.


[1] http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user
[2] http://www.drbd.org/docs/applications/
http://www.drbd.org/users-guide-emb/ch-gfs.html#s-gfs-primer
http://www.drbd.org/users-guide-emb/ch-ocfs2.html#s-ocfs2-primer
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Todd Denniston
Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane)
Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter