LeoFS is quite good, Rakuteen (who is developping it) uses it in a world wide distributed cluster with hundreds of TB of storage for their offerings. It is definitely worth evaluating.
--- Cheers, Heinz Nikolaus Gies [email protected] > On Feb 9, 2015, at 13:01, Sam M via smartos-discuss > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello all, > > Thanks for your responses and insight. > > So I guess GlusterFS is out. > > I had been intending to use GlusterFS in clients as an NFS mount and on > servers as a common data store. > > My use case is what Stephen mentioned - we also have a large number of images > for an image store and need to efficiently put them away in a > central/distributed manner. We have been considering Manta. I considered S3, > but did not think it worth the effort. S3 Glacier for archiving of older > assets seems worth looking into. > > I have not looked into Riak though, now I will. > > Stephen, I'd be interested to know what you decide upon and other experiences > in the selection process if you're able to share. > > LeoFS seems interesting but I need something that's production-ready. > > Thanks a lot. > > Sam > > On 9 February 2015 at 04:52, Stephen Nelson-Smith > <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > Hi Sam, > > On 8 February 2015 at 07:44, Sam M via smartos-discuss > <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > Hello. > > I'm considering using Gluster or something similar on my VMs. I'd like to get > the opinion of this community on whether this would be a good choice or if > there's anything similar I should also consider. > > I've used Gluster before (although with Linux, not SmartOS), and I have to > say I am not in a hurry to repeat my experience. > > Broadly speaking, SmartOS encourages a shared-nothing approach to services, > using local storage in preference to something like Gluster. > > I'd be interested to know why you want something like Gluster - what problem > you're actually trying to solve. > > We're currently exploring Riak and RiakCS, as we have a need for a very > (very) large image store, and local disk isn't going to cut it. > > We're also keeping an eye on Manta. > > S. > -- > Stephen Nelson-Smith > Director of Infrastructure Operations > Livelink Technology > > > smartos-discuss | Archives > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/22035142-3ef24523> | > Modify <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> Your Subscription > <http://www.listbox.com/>
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