Re: [CentOS] clustered file system of choice

2010-06-18 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Wednesday 16 June 2010, Boris Epstein wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 4:05 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Boris wrote: I am just trying to consider my options for storing a large mass of data (tens of terrabytes of files) and one idea is to build a clustered FS of some kind. Has anybody

Re: [CentOS] clustered file system of choice

2010-06-17 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 1:03 AM, Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com wrote: I am just trying to consider my options for storing a large mass of data (tens of terrabytes of files) and one idea is to build a clustered FS of some kind. Has anybody had any experience with that? Any recommendations?

Re: [CentOS] clustered file system of choice

2010-06-17 Thread John R Pierce
Raja Subramanian wrote: You need a shared SAN back end to run traditional cluster file systems. there are parallel storage file systems like Ibrix FusionFS that work with an array of systems with direct attach storage. FusionFS is commercial oh, its HP now, hmmm

Re: [CentOS] clustered file system of choice

2010-06-17 Thread Juergen Gotteswinter
Give GFS a chance, works very well for us and centos ships it On 06/17/2010 10:19 AM, Raja Subramanian wrote: On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 1:03 AM, Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com wrote: I am just trying to consider my options for storing a large mass of data (tens of terrabytes of files) and

Re: [CentOS] clustered file system of choice

2010-06-17 Thread Ross Walker
On Jun 16, 2010, at 4:17 PM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: I am just trying to consider my options for storing a large mass of data (tens of terrabytes of files) and one idea is to build a clustered FS of some kind. Has anybody had any experience with that? Any

Re: [CentOS] clustered file system of choice

2010-06-17 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 16/06/2010 21:11, Boris Epstein wrote: Will surely check Glusterfs out. What's your thoughts on GPFS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPFS ? I've used gpfs in the past, but it was a long time back. It works, mostly just does what it needs to do and stays out of your way. When we were using it,

Re: [CentOS] clustered file system of choice

2010-06-17 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 16/06/2010 21:12, Todd Denniston wrote: In short if you are considering DRBD as a backing device, definitely ask over on their mailing list and I suspect that mailing list population has a higher percentage of folks who use cluster FSs. DRBD is only worth looking at if you have something

Re: [CentOS] clustered file system of choice

2010-06-17 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 17/06/2010 09:28, Juergen Gotteswinter wrote: Give GFS a chance, works very well for us and centos ships it yes, seconded. The gfs stack works really well too. I'm running 2 instances and have not really had any major 'issues'. Production grade clvm's snapshot's would be a nice-to-have, but

Re: [CentOS] clustered file system of choice

2010-06-17 Thread Simon Billis
Boris Epstein sent a missive onĀ 2010-06-16: Hi all, I am just trying to consider my options for storing a large mass of data (tens of terrabytes of files) and one idea is to build a clustered FS of some kind. Has anybody had any experience with that? Any recommendations? Thanks in

Re: [CentOS] clustered file system of choice

2010-06-17 Thread Laurent Wandrebeck
On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:33:02 -0400 Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I am just trying to consider my options for storing a large mass of data (tens of terrabytes of files) and one idea is to build a clustered FS of some kind. Has anybody had any experience with that? Any

[CentOS] clustered file system of choice

2010-06-16 Thread Boris Epstein
Hi all, I am just trying to consider my options for storing a large mass of data (tens of terrabytes of files) and one idea is to build a clustered FS of some kind. Has anybody had any experience with that? Any recommendations? Thanks in advance for any and all advice. Boris.

Re: [CentOS] clustered file system of choice

2010-06-16 Thread m . roth
Boris wrote: I am just trying to consider my options for storing a large mass of data (tens of terrabytes of files) and one idea is to build a clustered FS of some kind. Has anybody had any experience with that? Any recommendations? We've been looking at glusterfs here. It's under active

Re: [CentOS] clustered file system of choice

2010-06-16 Thread Boris Epstein
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 4:05 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Boris wrote: I am just trying to consider my options for storing a large mass of data (tens of terrabytes of files) and one idea is to build a clustered FS of some kind. Has anybody had any experience with that? Any recommendations?

Re: [CentOS] clustered file system of choice

2010-06-16 Thread Todd Denniston
Boris Epstein wrote, On 06/16/2010 03:33 PM: Hi all, I am just trying to consider my options for storing a large mass of data (tens of terrabytes of files) and one idea is to build a clustered FS of some kind. Has anybody had any experience with that? Any recommendations? Thanks in

Re: [CentOS] clustered file system of choice

2010-06-16 Thread m . roth
Boris wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 4:05 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Boris wrote: I am just trying to consider my options for storing a large mass of data (tens of terrabytes of files) and one idea is to build a clustered FS of some kind. Has anybody had any experience with that? Any

Re: [CentOS] clustered file system of choice

2010-06-16 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I am just trying to consider my options for storing a large mass of data (tens of terrabytes of files) and one idea is to build a clustered FS of some kind. Has anybody had any experience with that? Any recommendations? You haven't actually stated whether you want the backing devices distributed