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Seriously man, I'm asking because I don't know: which filesystems do you recommend instead? I dabbled in CephFS because our data is write-once, but helping computer illiterate research scientists at other universities and national labs retrieve their data is a lot simpler from Lustre because it's just plain-old POSIX filesystem semantics. I'm not joking, I didn't ask this as a way to namedrop my experience and creden…
I’d be happy to chat more about your needs and try to help recommend a path forward. Feel free to shoot me an email at the address in my profile.
However, my lab is a brokedick operation with barely enough cash reserves to pay staff salaries. We sincerely do not have the budget to buy new software, especially after the NIH funding cuts.