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There are also distributed file systems (MooseFS, Gluster, Ceph) which can duplicate data across physical locations, protect it with checksums, scrub in a distr
by mbq 11y ago
There are also distributed file systems (MooseFS, Gluster, Ceph) which can duplicate data across physical locations, protect it with checksums, scrub in a distributed manner and auto-heal, all of that transparently.
- scrupulusalbion 11y agoHow easy are those to setup and how reliable are they?
- mbq 11y agoAbout hard as setting up any UNIX daemon on a few computers. Reliability is a complex topic, depends on what you need -- for an anecdotal evidence I maintain a microscopic (10-20TB/4-6 desktop hosts) Moose deployment for a distributed home dir use-case over 5 years without any data loss despite two full computer losses, one disk malfunction and numerous network and power outages (it never detected a bit-rot event though). There are many serious success and horror stories one Google query away.