On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 09:12:27AM -0500, Jiri B wrote: > 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 >
Something like pNFS would be ideal http://www.pnfs.com/
