[hkothari]

Can someone explain how this differs from something like HDFS? I'm kind of confused as to why there's no comparisons or mentions of HDFS here which makes me think I'm missing something important about what this provides that's special. Is it the easy to install part?

[birc_a]

HDFS is designed mostly for immutable files, stores three copies of everything in the default setup and has the whole hadoop calculation stuff.

BeeGFS is closer to a normal NFS share. In the default setup it just stores the data once, striped over multiple machines and it supports efficient updates in-place etc.