On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Venkatesh Nandakumar <[email protected]
> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We have a lab (Debian+Ubuntu Comps) and we want a very basic Distributed
> Files System.
> The requirements should be:-
>
> 1) Should connect all comps as one huge files system ( or at least a part
> of
> it, for e.g ~/Users folder in all computers). May have a single server
> daemon running and multiple client services (or some other combination)
> 2) Prefer using native 'cp' 'mv' 'rm' commands. For e.g Tahoe-LAFS had its
> own complex set of `tahoe add` commands which were difficult to use and
> supported less flags {And no, alias did not make it any easier to use}
> 3) Should be "dropbox-like" in functionality. Drag-Drop using nautilus
> should be supported since most of the users are not very experienced.
> 4) Windows support is of low priority, but added advantage.
> 5) Least data redundancy ( and wastage of disk space)
>
> There were a huge number of distributed file systems listed on wikipedia,
> and I prefer to get your opinions instead. Especially from people with
> prior
> experience in this regard.
>
>
Hi ,
Take a look to well-known NFS and GlusterFS. Both NFS/GlusterFS is about
sharing the filesystem.
*NFS:*
* If you want very basic Distributed Files System, NFS is very basic
Distributed Files System widely used and freely available distributed file
system.
* The NFS protocol is very old and not very efficient. It is hard to fix or
improve it.
*GlusterFS :*
GlusteFS is advanced, feature rich, scalabile, High performance file
systems.
* GlusterFS is a clustered file-system capable of scaling to several
peta-bytes.
* The real beauty of glusterfs lies in its simple, modular and extensible
design.
* GlusterFS is designed for linear scalability for very large sized storage
clusters.
* Storage bricks can be made of any commodity hardware
* GlusterFS has an edge over NFS in both features and performance(We have
benchmarked GlusterFS Vs NFS).
* Designed for O(1) scalability and feature rich.
GlusterFS Features:
http://www.gluster.com/community/documentation/index.php/GlusterFS_Features
You decide depending upon your need. I did benchmark over NFS Vs GlusterFS,
finally I recommended GlusterFS. Because it provides rich set features,
performance and scalability.
I hope this will help you.
Thanks & Rg
Mohan L
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