[ale] distributed network file system

[Jim Kinney]

Excellent! Good project link. Thanks!

This has many, many uses!

On 06/27/2012 05:37 PM, Brian Mathis wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 4:49 PM, John Heim<john at johnheim.net>  wrote:
>> I would like to set up a distributed network file system in my department.
>> There is a dizzying array of possibilities, gfarmfs, ceph, glusterfs, just
>> to name a few.
>>
>> Needs:
>> 1. Should work on a large number of small nodes, 100Gb each.
>> 2. Parallelism&  striping.
>> 3. Prefer debian package, GPL.
>> 4. Meta data in mysql would be nice.
>>
>> Any experience and/or recommendations?
>
> I've looked around for things to do this for a while, and finally came
> across Tahoe LAFS, which runs on Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD, eth...  I
> have not used it myself, but the project seems to have the same goals
> that you are looking for.  I'm not sure if it's good for active online
> storage though -- I always thought about it as extra storage for
> backups.
>
> https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs
>
>
> ❧ Brian Mathis
>
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