[CentOS] MooseFS repository

Fri Jun 11 10:16:58 UTC 2010
Laurent Wandrebeck <l.wandrebeck at gmail.com>

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.
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