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by cdnsteve 3585 days ago
Practical use case:

- Spin up a bunch of droplets on DigitalOcean, because I want reliability, etc.

- What's the best way to share drive space across these to create a single Minio storage volume, so if one DO node goes away I don't lose my stuff?
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krishnasrinivas 3585 days ago
We are working on distributed minio https://github.com/minio/minio/tree/distributed

The minio available today for production use can export single disk or aggregate multiple disks on the same machine using erasure coding.

For this, if you want backup you can use github.com/minio/mc tool to mirror, more help here https://docs.minio.io/docs/minio-client-complete-guide#mirro...

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killbrad 3585 days ago
I think this should be made clear on your site. I spent a good amount of time trying to figure out how to actually get this to be distributed, but the answer is - you don't. So it's only like S3 in interface, not in durability or availability.
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SteveNuts 3585 days ago
So far the best option I've found has been GlusterFS
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krishnasrinivas 3585 days ago
Minio is by ex-GlusterFS developers!
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nickpsecurity 3585 days ago
"You had my curiosity but now you have my attention."

That gives it some credibility. Especially ability to deal with tough challenges they'll encounter in this domain. Helps to have encountered most already. ;) I'll look at it in more detail later on. I'm also more interested in it if it has many-node, HA/SSI support. What's ETA on that feature?

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y4m4b4 3585 days ago
Currently we have a single node multi disk version relevant docs here - https://docs.minio.io/docs/minio-erasure-code-quickstart-gui...

We are also about to finish distributed server functionality you can track the work here https://github.com/minio/minio/tree/distributed

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nickpsecurity 3585 days ago
Thanks for the links. Good docs, too. Definitely keep that up. :)
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squiguy7 3585 days ago
I was going to suggest using their new block storage but I read the docs some more:

> A volume may only be attached to one Droplet at a time. However, up to five volumes can be attached to a single Droplet.

Looks like you would have to roll your own solution.

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