From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4532613838B for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2014 20:47:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 86424E0A44; Thu, 25 Sep 2014 20:47:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from uberouter3.guranga.net (unknown [81.19.48.176]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 43BD0E09BE for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2014 20:47:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.4] (86-40-83-212-dynamic.b-ras1.mgr.mullingar.eircom.net [86.40.83.212]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by uberouter3.guranga.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9EECABE0 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2014 21:47:33 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <54247F46.1050008@thegeezer.net> Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 21:47:02 +0100 From: thegeezer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.8.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] File system testing References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 92765d3e-4030-40d5-8c2e-b91ca4520e55 X-Archives-Hash: a31ef8dbd97f0ca0dda1b2bdae01e85f On 16/09/14 20:07, James wrote: > Hello, > > By now many are familiar with my keen interest in clustering gentoo > systems. So, what most cluster technologies use is a distributed file > system on top of the local (HD/SDD) file system. Naturally not > all file systems, particularly the distributed file systems, have > straightforward instructions. Also, an device file system, such as > XFS and a distibuted (on top of the device file system) combination > may not work very well when paired. So a variety of testing is > something I'm researching. Eliminiation of either file system > listed below, due to Gentoo User Experience is most welcome information, > as well as tips and tricks to setting up any file system. > > > Distributed File Systems (DFS): > HDFS (poor performance) > Lustre > Ceph > XtreemFS > GlusterFS > MooseFS > FhGFS (BeeGFS) soon to be entirely open sourced? > Any other distributed file systems I should consider using? > > Local (Device) File Systems LFS: > btrfs > zfs > ext4 > xfs > > Obviously I do not what to test all combinations of DFS/LocalFS > so your comments are extremely welcome as is any and all > related information. > > James > > howdy, you might also like to see about GFS2, OCFS and OrangeFS. GFS2 for me was major effort to get going on gentoo, OCFS worked almost out of the box, but is from oracle. in all cases writes were the biggest hurdle for me due to the distributed lock mechanisms ymmv