[lug] Cluster File Systems

[Davide Del Vento]

You are very welcome.
I suspect you can make it work with CentOS and perhaps even with Fedora or
other distros, but if you have easier routes....
The only other option I know is IBM's spectrum scale, which is proprietary
and so expensive you do not even want to know the price....
Keep us posted!
Davide

On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 1:14 AM, Lee Woodworth <blug-mail at duboulder.com>
wrote:

> On 08/02/2018 05:33 PM, Davide Del Vento wrote:
>
>> I'd suggest you take a look at http://lustre.org/
>> I don't know how it is from an administrative perspective, but it
>> certainly
>> can do what you ask. It might be overkill, but that's your call.
>>
>
> Thanks for the suggestion. It appears to require kernel patches and using
> RHEL for the server (Lustre Support Matrix only has RHEL for the server).
>
>   http://lustre.org/getting-started-with-lustre/:
>     Metadata and Object Storage Server require the Lustre patched Linux
> kernel,
>     Lustre modules, Lustre utilities and e2fsprogs installed. The clients
>     require the Lustre client modules, client utilities and, optionally,
>     the Lustre patched kernel.
>
>
>
>> On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 5:01 PM, Lee Woodworth <blug-mail at duboulder.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Can anyone recommend an open-source cluster file system
>>> that can handle doing lots of reads/writes to a remote
>>> file, especially >10GB files? Would like to have a
>>> mix of host architectures and not have to setup a full
>>> cluster + management.
>>>
>>> A few years ago I used glusterfs with the native fs driver
>>> in the kernel. I would get hard kernel-level lockups
>>> in the above scenario (client reboot was the only way
>>> to recover).
>>>
>>> Even nfsv4 servers locked up, though I haven't tried doing
>>> that in awhile.
>>>
>>>
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