[ale] Distributed filesystems?

[Niel Bornstein]

Longhorn is really only intended to serve as distributed block storage for
kubernetes. I don't think it fits Allen's use case.

On Sun, Mar 28, 2021, 1:24 PM James Taylor via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> Since SUSE bought Rancher, they are going all in on kubernetes as a focus.
> Now to place a bit of my ignorance on center stage.
>
> I haven't looked into it too much, but what about Longhorn.
> It's advertised as designed for kubernetes persistent storage, but would
> it be useful in a non or mixed kubernetes environment?
> I suspect SUSE will have migration tools available to move from CEPH, if
> not already.
> -jt
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> James Taylor
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> >>> Allen Beddingfield via Ale <ale at ale.org> 3/26/2021 4:28 PM >>>
> Wondering if any of you have experience with distributed filesystems, such
> as CEPH, GlusterFS, MooseFS, etc...?
> We've been using SUSE's "SUSE Enterprise Storage" package, which is CEPH,
> packaged with a Salt installer, and their UI.  Anyway, it worked well, but
> was sort of like using a cement block to smash a fly for our purposes.
> SUSE notified us yesterday that they are getting out of that business, and
> will EOL the product in two years.   I'm glad they let us know BEFORE we
> renewed the maintenance in May.
> That really wasn't that big of a deal for us, because we were about to do
> a clean slate re-install/hardware refresh, anyway.
> Sooo....
> I'm looking into MooseFS and GlusterFS at this point, as they are much
> simpler to deploy and manage (at least to me) compared with CEPH.  Do any
> of you have experiences with these?  Thoughts?
> The use case is to use CHEAP (think lots of servers full of 10TB SATA
> drives and 1.2TB SAS drives) hardware to share out big NFS (or native
> client) shares as temporary/scratch space, where performance isn't that
> important.
>
> Allen B.
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