[Gluster-users] glusterfs alternative ? :P

[Jerker Nyberg]

Hi,

The two interesting open source parallel distributed fault-tolerant file 
systems I have found and tried are GlusterFS and Ceph. Perhaps Lustre will 
be interesting for me in the future if they fix fault-tolerance without 
special shared block storage on the servers. (Or have they?) Mirroring the 
data two or more servers is good enough for me, although I would love some 
RAID-6/RAID-Z -like redundancy.

Ceph is found here <http://ceph.newdream.net/>. I did some benchmarking 
for Ceph a few months ago <http://www.update.uu.se/~jerker/ceph/>. On Ceph 
I got around 65 MByte/s write bandwidth on one node (using "dd") and 
around 120 MByte/s aggregate for the whole cluster (7 nodes).

It was around a year ago the last time I configured and ran GlusterFS on 
the machines, but I do plan to do some better benchmarking for both file 
systems in the not so distant future.

--jerker


On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, a_pirania at poczta.onet.pl wrote:

> I know that this is not the appropriate place :). You know someone can
> alternative to gluserfs ?:)
>