[CentOS] distributed storage/home-made cloud recommendations

Sat Feb 4 16:31:50 UTC 2012
nux at li.nux.ro <nux at li.nux.ro>

Boris Epstein writes:

> Hello listmates,
> 
> This is not specifically CentOS-related - though I will probably execute
> this design on CentOS if I decide to do so. It will certainly be some kind
> of Linux.
> 
> At any rate, here's my situation. I would like to build a fairly large
> storage solution (let us say, 100 TB). I want this solution to be
> distributed and redundant. I want to be able to lose part of the machines
> involved and still stay operational (the bigger part, the better). I would
> prefer to avoid having to buy large servers to accomplish this task.
> 
> What I am soliciting here is thoughts, reports from experience,
> recommendations, etc.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Boris.

Hello Boris,

I'm in a similar search for a scalable and resilient solution. So far I like 
glusterfs, relatively easy to setup, no meta-server required, decent 
performance, but I haven't tested it thoroughly. Been playing with their 
latest beta release in a raid0+1 setup; haven't managed to lose any data yet.

I'll also be interested in opinions from other people.

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