[Lustre-discuss] Future of LusterFS?

[Michael Schwartzkopff]

Am Donnerstag, 22. April 2010 08:33:14 schrieb Janne Aho:
> Hi,
>
> Today we have a storage system based on NFS, but we are really concerned
> about redundancy and are at the brink to take the step to a cluster file
> system as glusterfs, but we have got suggestions on that lusterfs would
> have been the best option for us, but at the same time those who
> "recommended" lusterfs has said that Oracle has pulled the plug and put
> the resources into OCFS2.
> If using lusterfs in a production environment, it would be good to know
> that it won't be discontinued.
>
> Will there be a long term future for lusterfs?
> Or should we be looking for something else for a long term solution?
>
> Thanks in advance for your reply for my a bit cloudy question.

Hi,

for me Lustre is a very good option.

But you also could consider a system composed from
- corosync for the cluster communication
- pacemaker as a cluster resource manager
- DRBD for the replication of data between nodes in a cluster

and

- NFS
or
- OCFS2 or GFS or ...

especially the NFS option provides you with a high available NFS server on 
real cluster stack all managed by pacemaker.

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