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How does this compare to Gluster?
by brightball 8y ago
How does this compare to Gluster?
- geofft 8y agoIsn't the big difference that all your clients have to be on the same physical hardware as your server?
- mistaken 8y agoAnd that makes virtio-fs a lot simpler than gluster. It doesn't have to deal with split brain, replication, etc..
- stefanha 8y agoGlusterFS is a distributed storage system. virtio-fs is a shared file systems for virtual machines. You can expose GlusterFS directory trees to virtual machines using virtio-fs but virtio-fs itself doesn't do the network communication or policy decisions about where and how data is stored on the network - that's the job of GlusterFS. The reason you might want to use both together is to hide the details of the GlusterFS configuration from the virtual machine. That way the virtual machine only sees a virtio-fs device and doesn't have network access to your GlusterFS cluster.