On Sat, 10 Nov 2007, Jordan Mendler wrote: Hello,
Perhaps someone could provide some insight and talk about the major differences between some of these different options.
I have tried to characterise some of the distributed ones here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_file_systems
* Oracle OCFS2
Shared disk file system. (Need direct block level access to shared storage, over SAN or SCSI etc.)
* Lustre
Parallel and distributed, but not in itself fault tolerant.
* MogileFS
Distributed, fault tolerant, flat namespace, database for metadata, not POSIX, application level, HTTP for transport. (Please correct me.)
* GlusterFS
Parallel distributed fault tolerant file system.
* Hadoop
I don't know much about it, but the Hadoop Distributed File System is supposed to be a GoogleFS clone in development.
* Cleversafe
I don't know anyting about it.
* Parallel Virtual File System (seems to lack redundancy if I am not mistaken)
Parallel distributed file system. Not fault tolerant in itself.
Thanks so much,
You're welcome. Regards, Jerker Nyberg.
