Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 10:24:26 -0700 From: Mike Carlson <mike@bayphoto.com> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: clustered file systems Message-ID: <504F73CA.2090200@bayphoto.com> In-Reply-To: <504E627C.70408@theiconic.com.au> References: <504E627C.70408@theiconic.com.au>
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On 9/10/2012 2:58 PM, Jurgen Weber wrote: > Guys > > I require a SAN solution for a mail server implementation I am > designing. The design I am looking for is the following: > > https://www.communigate.com/cgatepro/ClusterDynamic.html#OSCluster > > This means I require some sort of SAN storage managed by a clustered > FS, having very little SAN + ClusterFS experience I am research the > options available to me. FreeBSD being my OS of choice but I found the > following: > > http://blog.elitecoderz.net/cluster-filesystem-for-freebsd-gfs-ocfs2/2010/06/ > > > This blogger mentions that their is no Clustered FS support at this > point in time for FreeBSD which I find astonishing but I have been > unable to find anything except for a GlusterFS port using fuse (not > ideal). > > Any thoughts or suggestions appreciated. > > Thanks > MooseFS is in the ports tree ( sysutils/moosefs-master , sysutils/moosefs-chunkserver , sysutils/moosefs-client ) I tested it out on a few VM's nearly two years ago on FreeBSD 7 or 8, and it was as responsive as I could expect from three VM's running on the same desktop. If I had the resources and time, I would love to stress test it and see how it scales. I do agree that FreeBSD could really use a good clustered filesystem. I thought someone was working on CephFS at one point but I can no longer find any references to that. Mike C
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