[Gluster-users] Gluster with ZFS

[Alvin Starr]

Lets back up a bit.
What are you using zfs for?
The use case will defiantly effect your choice of solution.



On 2025-04-17 05:14, 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.
>
> What do you think of MooseFS ?  Have you or anyone else tried 
> MooseFS. If yes, how was its performance?
>
> Thanks,
> Gagan
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 1:45 PM Alexander Schreiber 
> <als at thangorodrim.ch> wrote:
>
>     On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 09:40:08AM +0530, gagan tiwari wrote:
>     > Hi Guys,
>     >                  We have been  using OpenZFS in our HPC
>     environment for
>     > quite some time. And OpenZFS was going fine.
>     >
>     > But we are now running into scalability issues since OpenZFS
>     can't be
>     > scaled out.
>
>     Since ZFS is a local FS, you are essentially limited to how much
>     storage
>     you can stick into one machine, yes.
>
>     > So, I am planning to use Gluster on top of OpenZFS.
>
>     I don't think that is giving you the kind of long term scalability
>     you might expect.
>
>     > So, I wanted to know if anyone has tried it. if yes, how it was
>     and any
>     > deployment guide for it.
>
>     I'm running GlusterFS in a small cluster for backup storage.
>
>     > We have an HPC environment . Data security and extremely fast read
>     > performance is very important for us.
>     >
>     > So, please advise.
>
>     For that use case I would actually recommend Ceph over GlusterFS,
>     since
>     that can be pretty easily scaled out to very large setups, e.g.
>     CERN is
>     using multiple Ceph clusters sized at several PB and their use cases
>     usually include very fast I/O.
>
>     Another concern is that Ceph is being quite actively developed whereas
>     GlusterFS development seems to have slowed down to ... not much,
>     these days.
>
>     Kind regards,
>                 Alex.
>     -- 
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>     overalls and
>      looks like work."                                      -- Thomas
>     A. Edison
>
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