++ 14/12/05 16:29 +0000 - <John Rowe>: Hi John, > The previous thread seems to have drifted slightly, so let me ask the > highly-nonhypothetical question: which distributed filesystem? Basically > I'm looking for an NFS replacement that is transparent to the users, > high-performance, fault tolerant and above all reliable! (Easy of set up > and World Peace highly desirable.) > > The options would seem to be: > > * AFS > *GFS > * Lustre > > Coda seems a bit research orientated, Intermezzo has been dropped and > its founders are apparently working on Lustre. > > Any experiences? You can answer part of this question by looking at the infrastructure requirements and performance profile of each filesystem (for example, AFS filesystem cloning is a big help, but AFS can be a lot to manage; do you need snapshot, etc.). I've played with GFS before and found you really do need the fibre and attached storage to get the real benefits. Sometimes you don't even need a special filesystem. If you want to create a parallel build cluster it might be good enough to use ccache and distcc. What do you want to do with this filesystem? John ############################################## # John Goebel <jgoebel(at)slac.stanford.edu> # # Stanford Linear Accelerator Center # # 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025 # ############################################ #