Distributed filesystems in Debian
About a month ago the issue of distributed filesystems in Debian was
raised here. Since then, has anyone had any experiences, good or bad?
Personally, I am looking for a good way to serve 16 disks (8TB), split
into two nodes to a cluster of 18 nodes.
My requirements (or maybe better "desires") are:
- present a single, monolithic as possible large filesystem
- enough redundancy so one dead disk doesn't kill the whole
filesystem's files
- RAID0 like parallelism to avoid bottlenecks
- Free Software (Debian packages best), simple install and
maintenance.
- Good match to my cluster size (10s of nodes), additional hardware
not required.
- Makes my morning coffee for me.
Currently I'm leaning towards using Lustre, but I worry it may not be
a good fit to the small size of my cluster. I'd also enjoy hearing
about the applicability of PVFS2 and Red Hat's GFS.
-Brett.
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