Hello everyone! I've been doing some research to build a gentoo cluster soon. The part I'm giving more attention is the clustered filesystem because I'll have to store *a lot* of data (like 50TB max). For now my choice is the Lustre Filesystem (after they release the 1.6 version).
Today I runned into the GlusterFS: The GNU Cluster Filesystem. According with it's website (http://www.gluster.org/) it has: - Per-file replication: you don't need to replicate every OSS like in LustreFS, you can have as many copies of some files as you want. Very good! - Scalability to the Petabytes (it's enough for me) - No single point of failure design. Completely distributed. No centralized meta-data server like Lustre. - It's a userspace filesystem. It doesn't need a specific distribution to run (like Lustre does). You can use Gentoo servers with the lastest kernel version!!!! :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) I would like to know if is there anyone here that tested this *new* filesytem. I know Lustre has other features and probably is faster. But I need a reliable fs for a *large* mail server cluster so I don't think I'll need the other features they have. What do you think??? Best regards, Daniel Colchete
