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As layman, which has been not following all the file store tech for a while. Is GFS still a thing and useful ?

hardwaresofton 6y ago
By GFS do you mean GlusterFS[0]? I never ended up using it because it was seemingly bad for databases -- it is probably nuseful but in comparison it wasn't that great. [0]: https://www.gluster.org/ https://www.gluster.org/
- rawoke083600 6y ago
  Ahh sorry yes, I should have been more clear. Yes Gluster. Thanks for feedback, I'm currently looking for a dist-file-store. Doesn't need to be super-fast just reliant and distributed.
  - hardwaresofton 6y ago
    So I have no idea what would work for you and am not in a position to make a solid recommendation.... buuuut this is the internet so I'll list some possibilities in order of perceived production worthiness: - Good ol' trusty NFS[0][1] (of course someone has to take an arrow to the knee and become an NFS admin essentially) - CephFS[2] via Rook Shared filesystem[3] - Swift[4] though it looks like a huge PITA to deploy outside of openstack, almost like it's hard on purpose - Dragonfly[5]? I remember think of it for containers but it's technically for random files too - SeaweedFS[6]? It's got a comparison section which is a good sign?? - Could you just... offload to some S3-like thing? [0]: https://kubernetesguide.com/kubernetes/nfs-volumes-in-kubernetes/ https://kubernetesguide.com/kubernetes/nfs-volumes-in-kubern... [1]: https://www.padok.fr/en/blog/readwritemany-nfs-kubernetes https://www.padok.fr/en/blog/readwritemany-nfs-kubernetes [2]: https://docs.ceph.com/en/latest/cephfs/ https://docs.ceph.com/en/latest/cephfs/ [3]: https://rook.io/docs/rook/v1.4/ceph-filesystem-crd.html https://rook.io/docs/rook/v1.4/ceph-filesystem-crd.html [4]: https://docs.openstack.org/swift https://docs.openstack.org/swift [5]: https://github.com/dragonflyoss/Dragonfly https://github.com/dragonflyoss/Dragonfly [6]: https://github.com/chrislusf/seaweedfs#compared-to-other-file-systems https://github.com/chrislusf/seaweedfs#compared-to-other-fil...
    - rawoke083600 6y ago
      Oh wow thanks for taking the time and writing this up ! Lol agreed with NFS. Trying to avoid that yes. I think I will need to setup some tests and go from there. Thanks again !

By GFS do you mean GlusterFS[0]? I never ended up using it because it was seemingly bad for databases -- it is probably nuseful but in comparison it wasn't that great. [0]: https://www.gluster.org/ https://www.gluster.org/

rawoke083600 6y ago
Ahh sorry yes, I should have been more clear. Yes Gluster. Thanks for feedback, I'm currently looking for a dist-file-store. Doesn't need to be super-fast just reliant and distributed.
- hardwaresofton 6y ago
  So I have no idea what would work for you and am not in a position to make a solid recommendation.... buuuut this is the internet so I'll list some possibilities in order of perceived production worthiness: - Good ol' trusty NFS[0][1] (of course someone has to take an arrow to the knee and become an NFS admin essentially) - CephFS[2] via Rook Shared filesystem[3] - Swift[4] though it looks like a huge PITA to deploy outside of openstack, almost like it's hard on purpose - Dragonfly[5]? I remember think of it for containers but it's technically for random files too - SeaweedFS[6]? It's got a comparison section which is a good sign?? - Could you just... offload to some S3-like thing? [0]: https://kubernetesguide.com/kubernetes/nfs-volumes-in-kubernetes/ https://kubernetesguide.com/kubernetes/nfs-volumes-in-kubern... [1]: https://www.padok.fr/en/blog/readwritemany-nfs-kubernetes https://www.padok.fr/en/blog/readwritemany-nfs-kubernetes [2]: https://docs.ceph.com/en/latest/cephfs/ https://docs.ceph.com/en/latest/cephfs/ [3]: https://rook.io/docs/rook/v1.4/ceph-filesystem-crd.html https://rook.io/docs/rook/v1.4/ceph-filesystem-crd.html [4]: https://docs.openstack.org/swift https://docs.openstack.org/swift [5]: https://github.com/dragonflyoss/Dragonfly https://github.com/dragonflyoss/Dragonfly [6]: https://github.com/chrislusf/seaweedfs#compared-to-other-file-systems https://github.com/chrislusf/seaweedfs#compared-to-other-fil...
  - rawoke083600 6y ago
    Oh wow thanks for taking the time and writing this up ! Lol agreed with NFS. Trying to avoid that yes. I think I will need to setup some tests and go from there. Thanks again !