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Ask HN: What distributed file system would you use in 2024?
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Re: Ask HN: What distributed file system would you use in 2024?
#12We have been using seaweedfs for about 3 months and so far it’s pretty solid, the integration with kubernetes is nice and the maintainer is very active on slack and when opening GitHub issues.
Re: Ask HN: What distributed file system would you use in 2024?
#13We have been using seaweedfs for about 3 months and so far it’s pretty solid, the integration with kubernetes is nice and the maintainer is very active on slack and when opening GitHub issues.
Cool! IIRC authentication was a bit tricky with SeaweedFS. Did you run into any issues there?
Re: Ask HN: What distributed file system would you use in 2024?
#14I still use Gluster, my thoughts on it are complicated.
I would absolutely not call it easy to admin... but I've enjoyed it. It's very workable.
I've brought volumes back from ashes with only their inode-local metadata! Yet, '/var/lib/glusterd' remains a liability somehow. The details of that recovery escape me.
With RDMA it performs like local-attached storage. Performance is great, but once the thing is off rails... Eesh.
Setup is deceptively easy. There's a few reasonable configurations, far more that are less than ideal. The topology you decide casts a lot of lines/decisions.
Re: Ask HN: What distributed file system would you use in 2024?
#15We've been using glusterFS in production for several years. It is slow and can be slow, especially when nodes experience higher network latency. When writes are synchronously executed across all the nodes we've seen higher load averages on servers.
However it has been working reliably. So for non-critical time constrained loads it's good enough.