[nycbug-talk] cluster storage
Bob Ippolito
bob at redivi.com
Tue Mar 25 11:00:48 EDT 2008
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Pete Wright <pete at nomadlogic.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 10:43:42AM -0400, Jesse Callaway wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Was anything mentioned of storage in last nights' meeting? I'm very
> > interested in distributed storage, with the least amount of redundancy
> > possible yet still be tolerant. Who isn't?
> >
>
> from my experience there is no real easy way to truely create a
> clustered storage pool with BSD's standard filesystems currently. I've
> even played with RedHat's gfs, and it's not ready for high volume
> production use yet IMHO.
>
> having said that - isilon systems (www.isilon.com) makes a scalable
> clustered storage solution based on FreeBSD. they have implemented
> thier own filesystem to do this. Also NetApp's next gen product (GX)
> makes heavy use of FreeBSD. so those are good signs if you can pay to
> play, are looking for an appliance type solution, or are a FreeBSD
> developer :)
>
> there are also things like VxFS (veritas' clustered filesystem) and
> oracle's offering (OCFS). I read an article about using OCFS in an
> non-oracle environment once that looked interesting, but it does suffer
> from being GPL'd...
I've been meaning to look at GlusterFS as well -- which is also GPL.
-bob
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