Hello, By now many are familiar with my keen interest in clustering gentoo systems. So, what most cluster technologies use is a distributed file system on top of the local (HD/SDD) file system. Naturally not all file systems, particularly the distributed file systems, have straightforward instructions. Also, an device file system, such as XFS and a distibuted (on top of the device file system) combination may not work very well when paired. So a variety of testing is something I'm researching. Eliminiation of either file system listed below, due to Gentoo User Experience is most welcome information, as well as tips and tricks to setting up any file system.
Distributed File Systems (DFS): HDFS (poor performance) Lustre Ceph XtreemFS GlusterFS MooseFS FhGFS (BeeGFS) soon to be entirely open sourced? Any other distributed file systems I should consider using? Local (Device) File Systems LFS: btrfs zfs ext4 xfs Obviously I do not what to test all combinations of DFS/LocalFS so your comments are extremely welcome as is any and all related information. James
