[Gluster-users] GlusterFS over S3FS

[Eivind Sarto]

Glusterfs requires extended attributes.  Does S3FS support xattrs?


On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 1:14 AM, Vincent Miszczak <vmiszczak at ankama.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
>
> Thank you for pointing this project, gonna try this.
>
>
> The idea behind what I described, is to provide SMB shares with automatic
> placement based on usage pattern.
>
> I work with large volumes, and only a fraction should have good (costly)
> performance. The rest can be archived.
>
>
> Archiving "the old way" (I mean manually moving the files to a cold
> tier) is not convenient, it breaks URLs, unless someone has some tips about
> this.
>
>
> I'm able to do the scenario described with normal Gluster nodes, some
> local with costly storage, some remotes with cheap storage. It's just
> tiering.
>
> But I still have to manage the Linux behind the cold tier. Not interesting
> to me as AWS, Google or whatever can provide cheap object storage without
> maintenance (that means, less people in my organization to achieve the same
> job).
>
>
> Vincent
> ------------------------------
> *From:* gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org <
> gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org> on behalf of Niklaas Baudet von
> Gersdorff <stdin at niklaas.eu>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 15, 2016 1:32:58 PM
> *To:* gluster-users at gluster.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Gluster-users] GlusterFS over S3FS
>
> Vincent Miszczak [2016-06-15 10:27 +0000] :
>
> > I would like to combine Glusterfs with S3FS.
> [...]
> > I also have the idea to test this with Swift object storage. Advises are
> welcome.
>
> Never tried this before. Maybe S3QL [1] works since it "is
> a standard conforming, full featured UNIX file system that is
> conceptually indistinguishable from any local file system".
>
> 1: https://bitbucket.org/nikratio/s3ql/
>
> The entire approach sounds a bit hackish to me though. :-)
>
>     Niklaas
>
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