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 26EDD13838B for ; Tue, 16 Sep 2014 19:08:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 57E28E0CD0; Tue, 16 Sep 2014 19:08:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E48E8E0A8E for ; Tue, 16 Sep 2014 19:08:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20EFD3402C0 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 2014 19:08:06 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -1.668 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.668 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.314, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.652, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001] autolearn=unavailable Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id XhzeI4_8OZt7 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 2014 19:08:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B622733EAF3 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 2014 19:07:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XTy6U-0004un-Os for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 16 Sep 2014 21:07:54 +0200 Received: from rrcs-71-40-157-251.se.biz.rr.com ([71.40.157.251]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 2014 21:07:54 +0200 Received: from wireless by rrcs-71-40-157-251.se.biz.rr.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 2014 21:07:54 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: James Subject: [gentoo-user] File system testing Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 19:07:38 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 71.40.157.251 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/29.0 SeaMonkey/2.26.1) X-Archives-Salt: 63b281c4-88fe-46bc-9463-2f7268ee75da X-Archives-Hash: 49e18fce4d5cf095a1704ec2b5e6f208 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