Perhaps a better question is what does GlusterFS give me over the Lustre FS
that Sun acquired a little while back? I'm not well versed in either, but my
understanding is the "concepts" are similar.
What platform/architecture is GlusterFS geared to? Lustre is currently
Linux/x86 based.
Thanks.
Shehjar Tikoo wrote:
> Jonathan Adams wrote:
>> What advantages does this give us over ZFS systems (which can do
>> NFS/CIFS native)
>
> The biggest advantage, compared to NFS/CIFS, is the ability to
> scale out the storage deployment beyond a single or a few
> servers/bricks/racks.
>
> GlusterFS enables this because the design is such that performance and
> storage of multiple nodes can be aggregated into a single name-space
> while ensuring that management overhead/complexity remains low.
>
> It provides safety against node failures through in-built replication
> ,striping and name-space distribution. Spreading out the data over
> multiple nodes brings with it the benefits of reducing hot-spots in
> workloads and access patterns.
>
> However, when dealing with networked storage, there is
> always the possibility of network failures and partitions. GlusterFS
> provides multi-pathing and high-availability functionality that ensures
> clients can work without disruption. The replication functionality
> is also able to handle such partitions and split-brains by performing
> self-heal automatically.
>
> New users dont have to format the disks either. Since GlusterFS works in
> user-space, it can use any POSIX compatible file system in one server
> and create a storage cluster together with completely different file
> systems on other nodes.
>
> We even have GlusterFS being used on production systems
> over ZFS on Solaris.
>
> Regards
> Shehjar
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