Hi,
A repository for MooseFS is just born. It provides CentOS 5.5 SRPMS, i386 and x86_64.
cd /etc/yum.repos.d/; wget http://centos.kodros.fr/moosefs.repo ; yum install mfs
Two points: - DNS may not be up to date where you are. The subdomain has just been created. Please be patient. - I have made an update to the .spec file, to move config files to /etc/mfs instead of /etc. I had no time to test it yet. I guess it works :)
What is MooseFS ?
MooseFS is a fault tolerant, network distributed file system. It spreads data over several physical servers which are visible to the user as one resource. For standard file operations MooseFS acts as other Unix-alike file systems:
* A hierarchical structure (directory tree) * Stores POSIX file attributes (permissions, last access and modification times) * Supports special files (block and character devices, pipes and sockets) * Symbolic links (file names pointing to target files, not necessarily on MooseFS) and hard links (different names of files which refer to the same data on MooseFS) * Access to the file system can be limited based on IP address and/or password
Distinctive features of MooseFS are:
* High reliability (several copies of the data can be stored across separate computers) * Capacity is dynamically expandable by attaching new computers/disks * Deleted files are retained for a configurable period of time (a file system level "trash bin") * Coherent snapshots of files, even while the file is being written/accessed
For more details, see http://www.moosefs.org Feedback welcome !
Thanks, Laurent.
On Friday 11 June 2010, Laurent Wandrebeck wrote:
Hi,
A repository for MooseFS is just born. It provides CentOS 5.5 SRPMS, i386 and x86_64.
cd /etc/yum.repos.d/; wget http://centos.kodros.fr/moosefs.repo ; yum install mfs
A general security comment. Doing the above means downloading and running code from kodros.fr as root on your systems.
/Peter
2010/6/11 Peter Kjellstrom cap@nsc.liu.se:
On Friday 11 June 2010, Laurent Wandrebeck wrote:
Hi,
A repository for MooseFS is just born. It provides CentOS 5.5 SRPMS, i386 and x86_64.
cd /etc/yum.repos.d/; wget http://centos.kodros.fr/moosefs.repo ; yum install mfs
A general security comment. Doing the above means downloading and running code from kodros.fr as root on your systems.
/Peter
Feel free to verify from SRPM that source code is exactly the same provided from http://www.moosefs.org All I can say is that I created that repo to be able to deploy it at work and home :) I just wanted to share it, Regards, Laurent.
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 06:15:04PM +0200, Laurent Wandrebeck wrote:
All I can say is that I created that repo to be able to deploy it at work and home :) I just wanted to share it,
Anyone here have long-term experience with MooseFS? Is it solidly reliable?
Thanks, Whit
On Sun, 13 Jun 2010 20:15:27 -0400 Whit Blauvelt whit@transpect.com wrote:
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 06:15:04PM +0200, Laurent Wandrebeck wrote:
All I can say is that I created that repo to be able to deploy it at work and home :) I just wanted to share it,
Anyone here have long-term experience with MooseFS? Is it solidly reliable?
At least two « big » players use it for a while:
([MB] means a Michał Borychowski ( MooseFS Support Manager ) to some questions on moosefs ML.)
[MB] At our company (http://www.gemius.com) we have four deployments, the biggest has almost 30 million files distributed over 70 chunk servers having a total space of 570TiB. Chunkserver machines at the same time are used to make other calculations.
[MB] Another big Polish company which uses MooseFS for data storage is Redefine (http://www.redefine.pl/).
According to my searches, moosefs is used in China too.
My experience is, it's running for two weeks in testing without any problem.
Hope it helps,
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Laurent Wandrebeck -
Peter Kjellstrom -
Whit Blauvelt