We had a thread not too long ago about this and it turns out tmpfs DOES support extended attributes, which is good for gluster :)
Might be a good proof of concept. On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Prasad, Nirmal <[email protected]> wrote: > Apostolos , > > Without knowing the true nature of the problem you wish to solve -- if > you are looking to take a few embedded machines and build some kind of > replicated distributed storage with gluster - the use of raw flash I don't > quite understand -- you could use ramdisks on the targets and get speed, > reliability and avoid component fatigue. > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gluster-devel/2013-05/msg00118.html > > -Nirmal > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Apostolos Manolitzas > Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2014 10:07 AM > To: Ric Wheeler; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] linux flash filesystems and GlusterFS > > On 04/10/2014 03:16 PM, Ric Wheeler wrote: > > On 04/02/2014 03:40 AM, Apostolos Manolitzas wrote: > >> Hello all, > >> > >> I just discovered the GlusterFS while looking for a solution for high > >> availability on our NAND flashes. We use ubifs > >> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_file_system#Linux_flash_filesyste > >> ms> > >> and jffs2 > >> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_file_system#Linux_flash_filesyste > >> ms> for filesystem and we would like to apply some high availability > >> strategy to a part of the flash. So has anyone tested GlusterFS with > >> this setup? Is it a viable solution or should we move to an upper > >> layer solution? > >> > >> thanks for any opinion, > >> > >> -Apostolos > > > > I always start by asking what type of flash are you using - if you are > > using PCI-e flash devices or S-ATA/SAS flash, there is no real reason > > to use UBIFS or JFFS2 since the parts do wear levelling and so on > > internally. > > > > For example, Google uses ext4 as their default file system for Android > > phones and tablets. > > > > I don't know of anyone running gluster on raw flash backed file > > systems (i.e., embedded systems) but that might be fun to try :) > > > > Ric > > > > > > > Hello, > > unfortunately we "live" in an embedded world with no parts to do the wear > leveling, so we were forced to use the UBI-FS. > > Thanks for the answer, I think we have to do some tests in order to have a > clear view. > > -Apostolos > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users >
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