http://www.beegfs.com/docs/BeeGFS_EULA.txt Umm, how is this compatible with GPL v2? It seems more restrictive (enterprise features, parts that would be better enforced by a trademark policy).
It appears that only the "client module" is GPLv2.
BeeGFS, the Parallel Cluster File System
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#22Actually there isn't a easy file system which spans 3 computers and scales to thousand and is eay to install. There are only one's which are hard to install, or needing more than 3 computers, etc..
http://www.ceph.com/
pretty hard to install (ceph-deploy makes it easier) but I've seen some pretty spiffy claims like really easy scaling and provisioning.
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#23Actually there isn't a easy file system which spans 3 computers and scales to thousand and is eay to install. There are only one's which are hard to install, or needing more than 3 computers, etc..
Honest question: how does GlusterFS not meet these goals? I know that it's easy to install, and can easily run on three computers. And I believe it can scale to thousands.
Gluster provides files storage but not block storage.
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#24This doesn't fill the huge gap for Cloud NAS. GlusterFS is hugely complicated and a fragile install, SoftNAS has (anecdotally) poor performance on high-io... but it's closer. Amazon hasn't launched their EFS product to General Availability Yet. So wtf do we do when we need a 5TB shared storage platform across some EC2 nodes?
At this time you will need to use an EC2 instance serving NFS over a big EBS volume.
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#25Actually there isn't a easy file system which spans 3 computers and scales to thousand and is eay to install. There are only one's which are hard to install, or needing more than 3 computers, etc..
http://www.ceph.com/ pretty hard to install (ceph-deploy makes it easier) but I've seen some pretty spiffy claims like really easy scaling and provisioning.
I've run a ceph deployment for about 18 months now, it's good. ops-wise it's like anything, a few quirks to learn - but it's very solid. I played around with a couple of puppet modules and ended up on ceph-deploy as well, makes life quite easy.
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#27Weird, the URL to the GPL'd source code behind a registration wall.
The source is released under the BeeGFS license... which is highly not GPL compatible (or copyleft) ... Only the clients are GPL'd
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
The obvious response to this silliness is for one person to download it and then make it available by torrent.
Or mirror it on GitHub
The source is at: http://www.beegfs.com/source/
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Still seems a bit weird though? Probably enough to put a lot of people off checking it out.
Yeah, sounds like they would be better off putting up the sources on a public git repo and then develop it in the open. Closed FS development for Linux at least does not seem to work well based on history. They can always have paid support but the closed development part doesn't bode well.
Given that they would like to keep copyrights on the contributions of third-parties, I doubt many outsiders will contribute.
Shame though...
Re: BeeGFS, the Parallel Cluster File System
#30Actually there isn't a easy file system which spans 3 computers and scales to thousand and is eay to install. There are only one's which are hard to install, or needing more than 3 computers, etc..
Honest question: how does GlusterFS not meet these goals? I know that it's easy to install, and can easily run on three computers. And I believe it can scale to thousands.
Actually GlusterFS is close to my needs, however the "easy to install" and actually bad performance on many small files is a road blocker for us. However it runs well, even on just 3 servers.