[ale] Giant storage system suggestions
Barlow, Jim D
jim.d.barlow at intel.com
Thu Jul 12 07:36:58 EDT 2012
As Jeff Layton says:
> If you want to go a bit cheaper, then I recommend going the
> Gluster route. You can get it for free and it only takes a bunch
> of servers. However, if the data is important, then build two
> copies of the hardware and rsync between them - at least you
> have a backup copy at some point.
> Good luck
> Jeff
Alex:
It is a great time to check out Gluster http://gluster.org as of the 3.3 release. Red Hat has put a lot into the project lately. I've been testing it for my own uses and have been delighted with it. It may complement your ideas.
I've ordered some inexpensive x86_64 hardware function as Gluster bricks for my own elastically scalable storage. It mounts as a high performance fuse file system or NFS, with a Samba shim you are good to go with CIFS.
- Jim
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