[Beowulf] Suggestions to what DFS to use

[Tony Brian Albers]

On 2017-02-14 02:36, Skylar Thompson wrote:
> Is there anything in particular that is causing you to move away from GPFS?
>
> Skylar
>
> On 02/12/2017 11:55 PM, Tony Brian Albers wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> So, we're running a small(as in a small number of nodes(10), not
>> storage(170TB)) hadoop cluster here. Right now we're on IBM Spectrum
>> Scale(GPFS) which works fine and has POSIX support. On top of GPFS we
>> have a GPFS transparency connector so that HDFS uses GPFS.
>>
>> Now, if I'd like to replace GPFS with something else, what should I use?
>> It needs to be a fault-tolerant DFS, with POSIX support(so that users
>> can move data to and from it with standard tools).
>>
>> I've looked at MooseFS which seems to be able to do the trick, but are
>> there any others that might do?
>>
>> TIA
>>
>
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Yes, IBM.

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Tony Albers
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