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by zsmith928 3670 days ago
what is the existing alternative for storage in distributed container environments?
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gsmethells 3670 days ago
Ceph, OpenStack Swift, GlusterFS, OrangeFS, Lustre.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clustered_file_system#Distribu...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_storage

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pinewurst 3670 days ago
If Lustre is the answer, you're probably asking the wrong question. Unless that question involves short life-span, massively parallel swap-outs from one weapons simulation to another.

I write this not as storage religion (of which there's far too much), but to warn away those who haven't experienced the many kinds of data (and stomach lining) loss that come with being a Lustre admin.

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sitkack 3670 days ago
https://www.csc.fi/web/blog/post/-/blogs/the-largest-unplann...
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objectivefs 3670 days ago
ObjectiveFS[1] is another option if you have access to an object store (e.g. S3 or GCS) from your containers.

[1] https://objectivefs.com

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nickpsecurity 3670 days ago
Add this to your list:

http://sector.sourceforge.net/

I swore I added it to the Wikipedia links. I'll have to do it again, I guess.

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domsj 3669 days ago
Have a look at Open vStorage (http://www.openvstorage.com). Some highlights: open-source, core is battle proven for more than 7 years, performance, scales across datacenters , unlimited snapshots, ...

(disclaimer: I'm an engineer there...)

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