What is the current status of Clustered File systems

Cheyenne · n00b Joined: 05 Jan 2005 Posts: 33

I need to set up a clustered file system, and was wondering what the possible selections are available?

I've done a search on gfs(2) and ocfs(2) w.r.t gentoo and while I have found "hits", most of the results have been folks asking the question, with a few that have indicated that they were able to cobble something together, but without details.

So...

What clustered filesystems are people recommending out there (if any) for gentoo's use?

ianw1974 · Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 9:15 am Post subject:

Maybe GlusterFS? It's available in portage as well. Very nice in fact, have used it.
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Claer · n00b Joined: 11 Feb 2003 Posts: 22

ceph and moosefs are also in portage.

Ceph is kernel based while gluster and moose are based on fuse.

I didn't test any (I don't have the use ... yet;)) but heard good things of moose over gluster (more reliable). gluster is more deployed.
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Cheyenne · n00b Joined: 05 Jan 2005 Posts: 33

Ceph, ClusterFS and Moosefs are all distributed filesystems, where you have a set of file servers that clients connect to.

The situation that I have is a SAN with fiber connections that is being shared between two systems, and sharing the LUN(s) between the systems. No need for file traffic going across the network (though locking does go across the network).