On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 01:23:12PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > But for other services i don't have now what i could use. A example: i need > > a file system that must expand by adding more machine in the network in a > > simple way. I was studying OpenAFS, but OBSD 5.1 only support it for i386, > > not amd64. Is there any alternative to it ? > > Does anybody here use OpenAFS on OpenBSD ? Does it scale well ? What about > > GlusterFS ? What would it be a better choice ? > > I'm not sure if there's anything really good in this area for OpenBSD. > GlusterFS requires FUSE.
"...or accessed via gfapi client library." So if you app would be able to use this library you could use glusterfs directly without native posix-like filesystem. Still, how would you make backup of glusterfs on OpenBSD...? The same applies to HDFS (Hadoo), doesn't it? oVirt uses NFS as storage for virtualization hosts and implements its own logic checking availability between hosts - SPM. Maybe you could use NFS and write some stuff around it to guarantee integrity and availability, in oVirt a hosts which looses NFS storage is fenced... IIRC somebody on the list described a NFS-based "clustered" filesystem using vnd images on NFS cross mounted and RAID on top of it. jirib
