[CentOS] clustered file system of choice

Wed Jun 16 20:13:05 UTC 2010
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

Boris wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 4:05 PM,  <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
>> Boris wrote:
>>>
>>> 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?
>>
>> We've been looking at glusterfs here. It's under active development, has
>> some problems, but it does work, and is in use a number of places around
>> the world.
>
> Will surely check Glusterfs out. What's your thoughts on GPFS:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPFS ?

No idea, never used it. Glusterfs is the first time I've ever needed to
look at a clustered f/s... but then, where I'm at now is the first place
I've ever worked with HPC clusters, as opposed to h/a clusters.

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