Distributed Storage Systems

Comments primarily recommend and discuss distributed file systems and object stores like Ceph, GlusterFS, Lustre, and alternatives for scalable cluster storage solutions.

➡️ Stable 0.9x DevOps & Infrastructure
3,099
Comments
20
Years Active
5
Top Authors
#1122
Topic ID

Activity Over Time

2007
2
2008
5
2009
40
2010
56
2011
65
2012
46
2013
80
2014
128
2015
148
2016
378
2017
208
2018
225
2019
186
2020
215
2021
215
2022
228
2023
205
2024
291
2025
348
2026
30

Keywords

RAM S3 ASC OSS CIFS NFS AFS ProxMox FUSE GFS storage nfs cluster filesystem distributed file ibm scale s3 disk

Sample Comments

j45 Oct 27, 2023 View on HN

Curious if something like Ceph would help.

carmen Nov 28, 2010 View on HN

Ceph or AFS may be worth a look-see

Veratyr Apr 21, 2017 View on HN

I'm not currently using any but I've tried:- Ceph: Very flexible. Supports many different kinds of replication. Has high overhead compared to local disk (on the order of ~50%) and was (for me) prone to hard to diagnose issues. Can be annoying to setup if you're not doing it on a supported Linux distro with ceph-deploy. It looks like Bluestore (a new on-disk format for data) will significantly improve performance but Bluestore is extremely RAM hungry.- GlusterFS: Much faster

baghali May 27, 2015 View on HN

Question from Githubbers:Have considered using cluster file systems such as GlusterFS or Ceph?

onli Mar 13, 2017 View on HN

Is it possible you look for something like Ceph? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceph_(software)

wiml Jul 1, 2013 View on HN

Or get a few more Pis and run Tahoe or Ceph ...

Nrsolis Apr 25, 2011 View on HN

Do you have any opinions of Ceph? They seem to be dong a similar thing.

etcet Dec 12, 2016 View on HN

If not Ceph, what are you using for storage?

fh973 Jun 19, 2023 View on HN

Use a distributed file system or object store with what you need, like Quobyte or Ceph.

mtanski May 28, 2014 View on HN

You're probably better if using Cephfs or Lustre then NFS. Linearly scalable, no SPOF (single point of failure).