[Lxc-users] Cluster filesystem?

[Ulli Horlacher]

On Mon 2012-10-08 (17:16), Papp Tamas wrote:

> On 10/08/2012 05:00 PM, Ulli Horlacher wrote:
> 
> > "should" - I prefer recommendations ny experience :-)
> >
> > I have tried by myself gluster and it is HORRIBLE slow.
> 
> If you are interested, try Moosefs. I have quite good experiences with 
> it, however not under containers.

Moosefs is FUSE based (for clients) and therefore will be very slow.
I suspect NFS is faster, even on (only) GbE.


> multiple mount protection
> 
> You cannot mount the partition multiple times at the same time. It's a
> safe protection. With this trick you can be safe and fast with all the
> benefits of true posix filesystems.

Ubuntu 12.04 does not have ext4 MMP support.
Besides this, I would need n filesystems for n hosts. A failover solution
would be very complex.


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