Re: Question about distributed FS for high-performance I/O [debian-hpc]

[Fabricio Cannini <fcannini@gmail.com>]

On 28-01-2016 13:13, Serge Cohen wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have asked a question a few days back on debian-hpc. Since the mailing list (debian-hpc) is very young and currently has only 17 members I guess that having no answer so far mean I'll get no answer in reasonable time. Maybe someone(s) on this list has some information that is pertinent on the question ?
>
> The original post is here :
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-hpc/2016/01/msg00000.html
>
> Thank you in advance for any help !
>
> Serge.


Hello!

A long long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away,
I've setup a glusterfs cluster to do what you want without much fuss.

https://packages.debian.org/jessie/glusterfs-server
https://packages.debian.org/jessie-backports/glusterfs-server


Nowadays an alternative would be ceph, but I've no experience with it.

https://packages.debian.org/jessie/ceph
https://packages.debian.org/jessie-backports/ceph


To my knowledge, both can use infiniband (not sure if RDMA or IpoIB)

> PS : We are using Debian for both servers and clients, and it is not an option for us to be using another system or distribution.

I see no problem with it ;)



Mail me privately if you want,
Fabricio