[ale] distributed network file system

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

"John Heim" <john at johnheim.net> writes:

> I would like to set up a distributed network file system in my department. 
> There is a dizzying array of possibilities, gfarmfs, ceph, glusterfs, just 
> to name a few.
>
> Needs:
> 1. Should work on a large number of small nodes, 100Gb each.
> 2. Parallelism & striping.
> 3. Prefer debian package, GPL.
> 4. Meta data in mysql would be nice.
>
> Any experience and/or recommendations?

What are your requirements for usage of the space?  Are you trying to
get a distributed SAN array?  Or are you just trying to get a
distributed file space?

If the latter you might also want to look at OpenAFS.  It is F/OSS,
although it's not GPL.  Oh, and the metadata isn't stored in MySQL.

-derek

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