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I ran a FreeBSD ZFS NFS server for a cluster for quite a while. I loved it. It was simple and stable. The thing that led me away from FreeBSD (aside from IT not

I ran a FreeBSD ZFS NFS server for a cluster for quite a while. I loved it. It was simple and stable. The thing that led me away from FreeBSD (aside from IT not being happy with an "alternative" OS), was that I needed a clustered filesystem. We outgrew the stage where I was comfortable with a single node and where upgrading storage meant a new JBOD. Are there any FreeBSD-centric answers to Ceph or Gluster or Lustre or BeeGFS?

arminiusreturns 5y ago
I haven't checked on it in a while but dragonfly has HAMMER2, the last docs https://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/blob/57614c517203403e7fe4a34c370c7151ba52c539:/sys/vfs/hammer2/DESIGN https://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/blob/57614c517... Might be a future alternative in the space.
- loeg 5y ago
  HAMMER2 is not yet clustered, as far as I know. They're still working on single-node functionality (I think). https://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/blob_plain/HEAD:/sys/vfs/hammer2/DESIGN https://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/blob_plain/HEA... was last updated in 2018, and at the time much of the clustering logic is described as "under development" or "not specced."
prakhunov 5y ago
This changed a couple of years ago but GlusterFS does run on FreeBSD now. It's not BSD centric but it works. https://www.freshports.org/net/glusterfs/ https://www.freshports.org/net/glusterfs/
mikehotel 5y ago
The handbook and wiki has info on FreeBSD Highly Available Storage: https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/disks/#disks-hast https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/disks/#disks-hast https://wiki.freebsd.org/HAST https://wiki.freebsd.org/HAST
diekhans 5y ago
Ceph is supported on FreeBSD https://www.freshports.org/net/ceph14/ https://www.freshports.org/net/ceph14/
- adamcstephens 5y ago
  Ceph 14 was EOL on 2021-06-30. There are two major releases past v14 that don’t seem to be available through freshports. I’m not sure I’d qualify this as supported, and definitely not actively supported. https://docs.ceph.com/en/latest/releases/#active-releases https://docs.ceph.com/en/latest/releases/#active-releases
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arminiusreturns 5y ago

I haven't checked on it in a while but dragonfly has HAMMER2, the last docs https://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/blob/57614c517203403e7fe4a34c370c7151ba52c539:/sys/vfs/hammer2/DESIGN https://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/blob/57614c517... Might be a future alternative in the space.

loeg 5y ago
HAMMER2 is not yet clustered, as far as I know. They're still working on single-node functionality (I think). https://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/blob_plain/HEAD:/sys/vfs/hammer2/DESIGN https://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/blob_plain/HEA... was last updated in 2018, and at the time much of the clustering logic is described as "under development" or "not specced."

prakhunov 5y ago

This changed a couple of years ago but GlusterFS does run on FreeBSD now. It's not BSD centric but it works. https://www.freshports.org/net/glusterfs/ https://www.freshports.org/net/glusterfs/

mikehotel 5y ago

The handbook and wiki has info on FreeBSD Highly Available Storage: https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/disks/#disks-hast https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/disks/#disks-hast https://wiki.freebsd.org/HAST https://wiki.freebsd.org/HAST

diekhans 5y ago

Ceph is supported on FreeBSD https://www.freshports.org/net/ceph14/ https://www.freshports.org/net/ceph14/

adamcstephens 5y ago
Ceph 14 was EOL on 2021-06-30. There are two major releases past v14 that don’t seem to be available through freshports. I’m not sure I’d qualify this as supported, and definitely not actively supported. https://docs.ceph.com/en/latest/releases/#active-releases https://docs.ceph.com/en/latest/releases/#active-releases

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