The article is really outdated. There is no "FhGFS" anymore. http://www.beegfs.com/content/ http://www.beegfs.com/content/ What i don't like are metadata serv

The article is really outdated. There is no "FhGFS" anymore. http://www.beegfs.com/content/ http://www.beegfs.com/content/ What i don't like are metadata servers. I mean mostly I would start out small, with every project. But the "real" cluster file systems don't follow this tradition. The bare minimum of a solid production environment is probably more than 5 nodes, which is really huge for using it as a layer for content distribution in the small scale. I mean its cheaper to rent s3 / the new aws nfs solution or any other s3 like storage solution, than running a server with a distributed file system by yourself and I'm just considering the running costs, no maintance etc... Its really hard to do this on premise on a really small scale and just for availability. Most people will mostly just buy this stuff from san/nas vendors if they could afford it, if they have a system that needs to have this built in your pretty much fucked with ugly hacks / solutions.