On 16/09/14 20:07, James wrote:
> 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
>
>
howdy,
you might also like to see about GFS2, OCFS and OrangeFS.
GFS2 for me was major effort to get going on gentoo, OCFS worked almost
out of the box, but is from oracle.
in all cases writes were the biggest hurdle for me due to the
distributed lock mechanisms
ymmv
