Re:BeeGFS, the Parallel Cluster File System
by merb on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @09:20AM
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Actually there isn't a easy file system which spans 3 computers and scales to thousand and is eay to install.
There are only one's which are hard to install, or needing more than 3 computers, etc..
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Re:BeeGFS, the Parallel Cluster File System
by hatsunearu on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @09:51AM
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http://www.ceph.com/
pretty hard to install (ceph-deploy makes it easier) but I've seen some pretty spiffy claims like really easy scaling and provisioning.
Re:BeeGFS, the Parallel Cluster File System
by angrygoat on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @10:26AM
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I've run a ceph deployment for about 18 months now, it's good. ops-wise it's like anything, a few quirks to learn - but it's very solid. I played around with a couple of puppet modules and ended up on ceph-deploy as well, makes life quite easy.
Re:BeeGFS, the Parallel Cluster File System
by hatsunearu on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @11:33AM
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Out of curiosity, how big is your cluster in terms of nodes, capacity, throughput, etc?
Re:BeeGFS, the Parallel Cluster File System
by Diederich on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @09:43AM
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Honest question: how does GlusterFS not meet these goals? I know that it's easy to install, and can easily run on three computers. And I believe it can scale to thousands.
Re:BeeGFS, the Parallel Cluster File System
by merb on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @11:22AM
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Actually GlusterFS is close to my needs, however the "easy to install" and actually bad performance on many small files is a road blocker for us. However it runs well, even on just 3 servers.