[ale] Distributed filesystems?

[Steve Litt]

Allen Beddingfield via Ale said on Fri, 26 Mar 2021 20:28:09 +0000

Sooo.... I'm looking into MooseFS and GlusterFS at this point,
>as they are much simpler to deploy and manage (at least to me)
>compared with CEPH.  Do any of you have experiences with these?
>Thoughts? The use case is to use CHEAP (think lots of servers full of
>10TB SATA drives and 1.2TB SAS drives) 

Our definitions of cheap are different. Each 7200 rpm 10TB SATA costs
upward of $400.

> hardware to share out big NFS

What are you doing to make NFS secure? Are you using NIS, or something
different?

The idea of a distributed filesystem, on my LAN and NOT on the
Internet, seems cool to me.

SteveT

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