[Gluster-users] Gluster with ZFS

[Alexander Schreiber]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 02:44:28PM +0530, gagan tiwari wrote:
> HI Alexander,
>                               Thanks for the update. Initially, I  also
> thought of deploying Ceph but ceph is quite difficult to set-up and manage.
> Moreover, it's also  hardware demanding. I think it's most suitable for a
> very large set-up  with hundreds of clients.

I strongly disagree. I run a small (3 nodes) Ceph cluster in my homelab
and following the official docs it's pretty easy to set up. The hardware
demands mostly depend on what performance one needs - the more performance
(e.g. NVMe storage and 100 GBit networking) one wants, the more powerful
hardware one has to provide, as usual. My nodes are Intel D-1521 with
64G of (ECC, of course) RAM and Connect-X 4 cards running at 10 GBit
and storage on HDDs which provide reasonable performance for my needs - not
a HPC setup, of course.

> What do you think of MooseFS ?  Have you or anyone else tried MooseFS. If
> yes, how was its performance?

Last time I looked, MooseFS needs a commercial license for the full feature
set (e.g. highly available metadata (_that_ is not negotiable!), erasure 
oding, Windows clients) which killed it for my non-commercial use case.

Kind regards,
            Alex.
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