I certainly second the notion of lustre SNS just not sure its going to happen any time soon. For us it would allow lustre to serve as a production file store instead of just a fast scratch space.
Jordan On 7/18/09, Mag Gam <[email protected]> wrote: > I was first interested in the simplicity and redundancy but it seems > the product needs to be more mature like Lustre. Can't wait until > Lustre's SNS ;-) > > > > On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Jordan Mendler<[email protected]> wrote: >>> We have been hearing a lot of news recently about "Gluster". Does >>> anyone know how it compares to Lustre? Can it do the same things as >>> Lustre? It seems it has built in SNS. Anyone know? >> >> We have tried Gluster on several occasions and it was always buggy at >> scale. >> Initially we had about 60TB of medium sized files in a test environment >> with >> about 20 clients, and Gluster flipped out when a node would reboot. Since >> there is no Metadata server, it appeared to hang on reindexing everything >> on >> each node on start up. Also lots of weird hangs and things like taking 5 >> minutes to return an ls. No where near as stable as Lustre, which more or >> less just works, with a smaller number of weird issues. >> >> The Gluster company also gave us a lot of mixed signals. They called us >> once >> to offer us free support in helping up set up a reevaluation of GlusterFS. >> We spoke to the CEO's and agreed. After spending several hours setting it >> up >> ourselves, they then avoided our support questions saying priority goes to >> paying customers. Ultimately they attempted to help us, but with little >> success. >> >> They present a nice roadmap and the concept of minimizing complexity is >> promising for things like backup systems. Unfortunately they are nowhere >> near ready. Hopefully they can stabilize their product in the future >> because >> it would be a good addition to the open-source community. >> >> Jordan >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Lustre-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss >> >> > -- Sent from my mobile device _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
