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Re:Torus: A distributed storage system by CoreOS by zsmith928 on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @01:51PM (#11816591)
what is the existing alternative for storage in distributed container environments?
Re:Torus: A distributed storage system by CoreOS by gsmethells on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @02:27PM (#11816910)
Re:Torus: A distributed storage system by CoreOS by pinewurst on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @02:59PM (#11817181)
If Lustre is the answer, you're probably asking the wrong question. Unless that question involves short life-span, massively parallel swap-outs from one weapons simulation to another.

I write this not as storage religion (of which there's far too much), but to warn away those who haven't experienced the many kinds of data (and stomach lining) loss that come with being a Lustre admin.

Re:Torus: A distributed storage system by CoreOS by sitkack on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @04:55PM (#11818083)
Re:Torus: A distributed storage system by CoreOS by objectivefs on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @05:48PM (#11818509)
ObjectiveFS[1] is another option if you have access to an object store (e.g. S3 or GCS) from your containers.

[1] https://objectivefs.com

Re:Torus: A distributed storage system by CoreOS by nickpsecurity on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @04:11PM (#11817736)
Add this to your list:

http://sector.sourceforge.net/

I swore I added it to the Wikipedia links. I'll have to do it again, I guess.

Re:Torus: A distributed storage system by CoreOS by domsj on Thursday June 02, 2016 @04:52AM (#11821155)
Have a look at Open vStorage (http://www.openvstorage.com). Some highlights: open-source, core is battle proven for more than 7 years, performance, scales across datacenters , unlimited snapshots, ...

(disclaimer: I'm an engineer there...)