[nycbug-talk] glusterfs

[Pete Wright]

On 3-May-09, at 12:00 PM, Jesse Callaway wrote:

> Anyone having any luck with glusterfs >= 2.0 on BSD? There is a very
> nice source distribution which has port Makefiles and all so that a
> port and package can be made very easily... despite the INSANE
> directions in the readme.
>
> Gonna try going back to version 1.3.9 or whatever the previous stable
> version is.
>
> Miles, I'm sure you have something smarmy and intelligent to say about
> glusterfs... I'd like to hear it. Let's open a discussion if anyone's
> interested in it, or if anyone has any good suggestions for an
> alternative.
>
> Sun has a cool project called Celeste going on, but I don't think it's
> anywhere near fun to play with yet. Haven't even downloaded it.
>


hey jesse - i took a good look at glusterfs recently, and i've been  
keeping an eye on it pretty closely.  my impression is that if you  
need a global filesystem it is certainly worth a look.  i know that my  
previous employer is going to be using this pretty extensively in the  
near future fwiw.

another gfs worth taking a look at is hadoop:
http://hadoop.apache.org/core/

It is a google-filesystem workalop (i.e. uses algo's similar to map  
reduce for file storage etc).  i know yahoo is a consumer/developer of  
this as well.

-p