Does OBSD support it? On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 7:02 PM, David Diggles <da...@elven.com.au> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 09:12:27AM -0500, Jiri B wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 01:23:12PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > > > But for other services i don't have now what i could use. A example: > i need > > > > a file system that must expand by adding more machine in the network > in a > > > > simple way. I was studying OpenAFS, but OBSD 5.1 only support it for > i386, > > > > not amd64. Is there any alternative to it ? > > > > Does anybody here use OpenAFS on OpenBSD ? Does it scale well ? What > about > > > > GlusterFS ? What would it be a better choice ? > > > > > > I'm not sure if there's anything really good in this area for OpenBSD. > > > GlusterFS requires FUSE. > > > > "...or accessed via gfapi client library." So if you app would be able to > > use this library you could use glusterfs directly without native > posix-like > > filesystem. Still, how would you make backup of glusterfs on OpenBSD...? > > The same applies to HDFS (Hadoo), doesn't it? > > > > oVirt uses NFS as storage for virtualization hosts and implements its own > > logic checking availability between hosts - SPM. Maybe you could use NFS > > and write some stuff around it to guarantee integrity and availability, > > in oVirt a hosts which looses NFS storage is fenced... > > > > IIRC somebody on the list described a NFS-based "clustered" filesystem > > using vnd images on NFS cross mounted and RAID on top of it. > > > > jirib > > > > Something like pNFS would be ideal http://www.pnfs.com/
