On 06/28/2017 09:39 PM, Christopher Samuel wrote:
Hi all, A few folks were chatting about HPC distributed filesystems over on the Australian HPC sysadmin Slack and the question arose about whether anyone is using BeeGFS for non-scratch (persistent) storage. So, is anyone doing that?
I have a number of (former) customers using it as primary storage. You set up mirrored metadata, mirrored data, and you get a nice HA-like system (they have some issues with HA daemons, but I understand this is being worked on and will be delivered soon).
It is IMO excellent for this. Back it with zfs on the units, distribute your metadata and mirror it.
Also, is anyone doing that with CephFS too?
Can be done, but I know very few people using it (again some former prospective customers). CephFS is somewhat behind for this use case, though it should be reasonably stable/performant.
All the best, Chris
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