[Lxc-users] Cluster filesystem?

2012-10-08 Thread Ulli Horlacher
Are there recommendations on cluster filesystems? I have several hosts with fibre channel. They should use a common filesystem to have a half-automatic fail-over. -- Ullrich Horlacher Informationssysteme und Serverbetrieb Rechenzentrum IZUS/TIK E-Mail:

Re: [Lxc-users] Cluster filesystem?

2012-10-08 Thread Papp Tamas
On 10/08/2012 09:47 AM, Ulli Horlacher wrote: Are there recommendations on cluster filesystems? I have several hosts with fibre channel. They should use a common filesystem to have a half-automatic fail-over. I think you should be able to use any of the cluster FS (eg. gluster, moosefs,

Re: [Lxc-users] Cluster filesystem?

2012-10-08 Thread Ulli Horlacher
On Mon 2012-10-08 (10:32), Papp Tamas wrote: On 10/08/2012 09:47 AM, Ulli Horlacher wrote: Are there recommendations on cluster filesystems? I have several hosts with fibre channel. They should use a common filesystem to have a half-automatic fail-over. I think you should be able to

Re: [Lxc-users] Cluster filesystem?

2012-10-08 Thread Papp Tamas
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. With GFS I have heard of several fatal crashes with data corruption. Also GFS locking mechanism is not the best if I know well. If you are

Re: [Lxc-users] Cluster filesystem?

2012-10-08 Thread 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

Re: [Lxc-users] Cluster filesystem?

2012-10-08 Thread Papp Tamas
On 10/08/2012 05:58 PM, Ulli Horlacher wrote: Moosefs is FUSE based (for clients) and therefore will be very slow. I suspect NFS is faster, even on (only) GbE. Glusterfs is also fuse based. If you don't want that, try Lustre. NFS is faster, but it's not clusterfs. Ubuntu 12.04 does not

Re: [Lxc-users] Cluster filesystem?

2012-10-08 Thread Toens Bueker
Ulli Horlacher frams...@rus.uni-stuttgart.de 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