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Re:Dead ends of information technology by merb on Thursday November 25, 2021 @07:12PM (#29346303)
> There are still a lot of NFS based solution for server-to-server communication, but I would use a Ceph-based solution, if I could start from scratch.

srsly? as if the two have anything in common and the same complexity?

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Re:Dead ends of information technology by Spivak on Thursday November 25, 2021 @08:06PM (#29346619)
They solve all the same operational problems — how do I access these files on multiple machines but NFS is strictly worse in pretty much every way to GlusterFS and Ceph.

NFSs HA story is almost nonexistent and comes with list of buts that’s longer than the positives. As a technology it’s dead for anything other than the tiniest of internal IT use cases.

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Re:Dead ends of information technology by selfhoster11 on Thursday November 25, 2021 @07:32PM (#29346429)
Exactly. NFS takes a couple of lines in /etc/exports. Ceph is large, scary, and multi-node.
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