Re: [gentoo-user] File system testing

[Kerin Millar]

On 17/09/2014 19:21, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> On 17 September 2014 20:10:57 CEST, "Hervé Guillemet" <herve@×××××××××.org> wrote:
>> Le 16/09/2014 21:07, James a écrit :
>>>
>>> By now many are familiar with my keen interest in clustering gentoo
>>> systems. So, what most cluster technologies use is a distributed file
>>> system on top of the local (HD/SDD) file system. Naturally not
>>> all file systems, particularly the distributed file systems, have
>>> straightforward instructions. Also, an device file system, such as
>>> XFS and a distibuted (on top of the device file system) combination
>>> may not work very well when paired. So a variety of testing is
>>> something I'm researching. Eliminiation of either file system
>>> listed below, due to Gentoo User Experience is most welcome
>> information,
>>> as well as tips and tricks to setting up any file system.
>>
>> Hi James,
>>
>> Have you found this document :
>>
>> http://hal.inria.fr/hal-00789086/PDF/a_survey_of_dfs.pdf
>>
>> On a related matter, I'd like to host my own file server on a dedicated
>> box so that I can access my working files from serveral locations. I'd
>> like it to be fast and secure, and I don't mind if the files are
>> replicated on each workstation. What would be the better tools for this
>> ?
>
> AFS has caching and can survive temporary disappearance of the server.
>
> For me, I need to be able to provide Samba filesharing on top of that layer on 2 different locations as I don't see the network bandwidth to be sufficient for normal operations. (ADSL uplinks tend to be dead slow)

You might try GlusterFS with two replicating bricks. The latest version 
of Samba in portage includes a VFS plugin that can integrate GlusterFS 
volumes via GFAPI.

--Kerin