renemoser.net » drbd http://www.renemoser.net more or less a tech blog Mon, 02 Aug 2010 08:39:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 GlusterFS: Distributed File System http://www.renemoser.net/2009/05/glusterfs-distributed-file-system/ http://www.renemoser.net/2009/05/glusterfs-distributed-file-system/#comments Mon, 18 May 2009 12:34:08 +0000 resmo http://www.renemoser.net/?p=660 GlusterFS is what I always looked for. I normaly used DRBD for this purpose. But GlusterFS seems to be more promising:

GlusterFS is a general purpose distributed file system for scalable storage. It aggregates various storage bricks over Infiniband RDMA or TCP/IP interconnect into one large parallel network file system. GlusterFS is based on a stackable user space design without compromising performance. From the ground zero days it has found a variety of applications ranging from Cloud Computing, Biomedical Sciences to Archival Storage.

It is not limited to 2 nodes like DRBD (RAID 1 over TCP/IP)

So features are:

  • File-based mirroring and replication
  • File-based striping
  • File-based load balancing
  • Volume failover
  • scheduling and disk caching
  • Storage quotas

Some examples how this can be done:

GlusterFS is licensed under GPLv3.

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