[CentOS] What FileSystems for large stores and very very large stores?

Fri Jul 5 16:34:18 UTC 2013
SilverTip257 <silvertip257 at gmail.com>

On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Eliezer Croitoru <eliezer at ngtech.co.il>
> wrote:
> > I want to create a storage with more then 16TB based on GlusterFS since
> > it allows me to use 2-3 rings FS which will allow me to put the storage
> > in a form of:
> > 1 client -> HA NFS servers -> GlusterFS cluster.
>
> If you really only have one client, you might look at ceph for
> distributed block storage with xfs on top so you don't need to run
>

Or DRBD [0] to block replicate the storage
I know a handful of people on the lists here use DRBD on the virtualization
clusters.

A quick Google search for 'ceph vs drbd' yields these URLs [1] [2] the OP
might also look at.



> through fuse.  Or if your application can be changed to use the s3
> interface you could get away from the posix filesystem bottlenecks
> completely.
>
> No experience with this stuff - just sounds like the promising
> up-and-coming thing...
>
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[0] http://www.drbd.org/
[1] http://ceph.com/community/ceph-comes-to-synnefo-and-ganeti/
[2]
http://forum.proxmox.com/threads/10452-Why-a-Shared-or-Cluster-Filesystem-is-better-than-LVM-for-DRBD

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