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On 16/09/14 20:07, James wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> By now many are familiar with my keen interest in clustering gentoo |
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> systems. So, what most cluster technologies use is a distributed file |
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> system on top of the local (HD/SDD) file system. Naturally not |
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> all file systems, particularly the distributed file systems, have |
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> straightforward instructions. Also, an device file system, such as |
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> XFS and a distibuted (on top of the device file system) combination |
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> may not work very well when paired. So a variety of testing is |
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> something I'm researching. Eliminiation of either file system |
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> listed below, due to Gentoo User Experience is most welcome information, |
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> as well as tips and tricks to setting up any file system. |
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> Distributed File Systems (DFS): |
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> HDFS (poor performance) |
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> Lustre |
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> Ceph |
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> XtreemFS |
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> GlusterFS |
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> MooseFS |
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> FhGFS (BeeGFS) soon to be entirely open sourced? |
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> Any other distributed file systems I should consider using? |
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> Local (Device) File Systems LFS: |
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> btrfs |
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> zfs |
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> ext4 |
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> xfs |
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> Obviously I do not what to test all combinations of DFS/LocalFS |
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> so your comments are extremely welcome as is any and all |
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> related information. |
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> James |
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howdy, |
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you might also like to see about GFS2, OCFS and OrangeFS. |
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GFS2 for me was major effort to get going on gentoo, OCFS worked almost |
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out of the box, but is from oracle. |
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in all cases writes were the biggest hurdle for me due to the |
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distributed lock mechanisms |
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ymmv |
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