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Practical use case: - Spin up a bunch of droplets on DigitalOcean, because I want reliability, etc. - What's the best way to share drive space across these to

Practical use case: - Spin up a bunch of droplets on DigitalOcean, because I want reliability, etc. - What's the best way to share drive space across these to create a single Minio storage volume, so if one DO node goes away I don't lose my stuff?

SteveNuts 10y ago
So far the best option I've found has been GlusterFS
- krishnasrinivas 10y ago
  Minio is by ex-GlusterFS developers!
  - nickpsecurity 10y ago
    "You had my curiosity but now you have my attention." That gives it some credibility. Especially ability to deal with tough challenges they'll encounter in this domain. Helps to have encountered most already. ;) I'll look at it in more detail later on. I'm also more interested in it if it has many-node, HA/SSI support. What's ETA on that feature?
    - y4m4b4 10y ago
      Currently we have a single node multi disk version relevant docs here - https://docs.minio.io/docs/minio-erasure-code-quickstart-guide https://docs.minio.io/docs/minio-erasure-code-quickstart-gui... We are also about to finish distributed server functionality you can track the work here https://github.com/minio/minio/tree/distributed https://github.com/minio/minio/tree/distributed
      - nickpsecurity 10y ago
        Thanks for the links. Good docs, too. Definitely keep that up. :)
squiguy7 10y ago
I was going to suggest using their new block storage but I read the docs some more: > A volume may only be attached to one Droplet at a time. However, up to five volumes can be attached to a single Droplet. Looks like you would have to roll your own solution.
krishnasrinivas 10y ago
We are working on distributed minio https://github.com/minio/minio/tree/distributed https://github.com/minio/minio/tree/distributed The minio available today for production use can export single disk or aggregate multiple disks on the same machine using erasure coding. For this, if you want backup you can use github.com/minio/mc tool to mirror, more help here https://docs.minio.io/docs/minio-client-complete-guide#mirror https://docs.minio.io/docs/minio-client-complete-guide#mirro...
- killbrad 10y ago
  I think this should be made clear on your site. I spent a good amount of time trying to figure out how to actually get this to be distributed, but the answer is - you don't. So it's only like S3 in interface, not in durability or availability.
krishnasrinivas 10y ago
We are working on distributed minio https://github.com/minio/minio/tree/distributed https://github.com/minio/minio/tree/distributed The minio available today for production use can export single disk or aggregate multiple disks on the same machine using erasure coding. For single node version if you want backup you can use https://github.com/minio/mc https://github.com/minio/mc tool to mirror, more help here https://docs.minio.io/docs/minio-client-complete-guide#mirror https://docs.minio.io/docs/minio-client-complete-guide#mirro...

SteveNuts 10y ago

So far the best option I've found has been GlusterFS

krishnasrinivas 10y ago
Minio is by ex-GlusterFS developers!
- nickpsecurity 10y ago
  "You had my curiosity but now you have my attention." That gives it some credibility. Especially ability to deal with tough challenges they'll encounter in this domain. Helps to have encountered most already. ;) I'll look at it in more detail later on. I'm also more interested in it if it has many-node, HA/SSI support. What's ETA on that feature?
  - y4m4b4 10y ago
    Currently we have a single node multi disk version relevant docs here - https://docs.minio.io/docs/minio-erasure-code-quickstart-guide https://docs.minio.io/docs/minio-erasure-code-quickstart-gui... We are also about to finish distributed server functionality you can track the work here https://github.com/minio/minio/tree/distributed https://github.com/minio/minio/tree/distributed
    - nickpsecurity 10y ago
      Thanks for the links. Good docs, too. Definitely keep that up. :)

squiguy7 10y ago

I was going to suggest using their new block storage but I read the docs some more: > A volume may only be attached to one Droplet at a time. However, up to five volumes can be attached to a single Droplet. Looks like you would have to roll your own solution.

krishnasrinivas 10y ago

We are working on distributed minio https://github.com/minio/minio/tree/distributed https://github.com/minio/minio/tree/distributed The minio available today for production use can export single disk or aggregate multiple disks on the same machine using erasure coding. For this, if you want backup you can use github.com/minio/mc tool to mirror, more help here https://docs.minio.io/docs/minio-client-complete-guide#mirror https://docs.minio.io/docs/minio-client-complete-guide#mirro...

killbrad 10y ago
I think this should be made clear on your site. I spent a good amount of time trying to figure out how to actually get this to be distributed, but the answer is - you don't. So it's only like S3 in interface, not in durability or availability.

krishnasrinivas 10y ago

We are working on distributed minio https://github.com/minio/minio/tree/distributed https://github.com/minio/minio/tree/distributed The minio available today for production use can export single disk or aggregate multiple disks on the same machine using erasure coding. For single node version if you want backup you can use https://github.com/minio/mc https://github.com/minio/mc tool to mirror, more help here https://docs.minio.io/docs/minio-client-complete-guide#mirror https://docs.minio.io/docs/minio-client-complete-guide#mirro...