Clustered filesystems just means that one machine can wreak havock across many domains of fun. (I used early lustre, I know from fun experience) ceph seems nic

Clustered filesystems just means that one machine can wreak havock across many domains of fun. (I used early lustre, I know from fun experience) ceph seems nice, but appears to be very CPU hungry and not very fast. Seems easier to have sharded vanilla linux file servers. It requires a decent asset manager, but once you have that, backups and rebalancing become trivial.