[Gluster-users] glusterfs alternative ? :P

[Mickey Mazarick]

Luster isn't Java it's actually a kernel patch (for the server at 
least). I think the client goes through fuse now (it didn't last time I 
tested it).
It's got similar speeds compared to gluster for a few nodes but depends 
on fiberchannel or some other shared block storage system for 
redundancy. We immediately discarded it in favor of gluster for this 
reason. It was also significantly more difficult to get running as it 
was a kernel patch.

-Mickey Mazarick

Stas Oskin wrote:
> Hi.
>
> AFAIK Lustre is quite slower then GlusterFS being based on Java - can 
> someone comment about this?
>
> Regards.
>
> 2009/1/8 Jerker Nyberg <jerker at update.uu.se <mailto:jerker at update.uu.se>>
>
>
>     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/
>     <http://www.update.uu.se/%7Ejerker/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
>     <mailto:a_pirania at poczta.onet.pl> wrote:
>
>     > I know that this is not the appropriate place :). You know
>     someone can
>     > alternative to gluserfs ?:)
>     >
>
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