[3dem] File systems

[Jonathan MICHALON]

Hi,

Here in Strasbourg we are relatively happy with GlusterFS for local imaging storage (in-lab, near teams and microscopes).
On the computing center of the university they recently switched to a new interesting competitor called RozoFS which provides far better performances both for small files I/O, directory listing and also parallel access (which were a pain on eg. gpfs).

Both are free software, avoiding dependency to a proprietary unknown on-disk format, running on commodity hardware and thus reducing costs. There is a startup behind RozoFS providing support for the one who need it (like the computing center) but other clusters run without any support too, reducing costs quite sensitively.

My 2 cents,

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Jonathan Michalon

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De : 3dem <3dem-bounces at ncmir.ucsd.edu> de la part de Reza Khayat <rkhayat at ccny.cuny.edu>
Envoyé : dimanche 3 janvier 2016 18:53
À : 3dem at ncmir.ucsd.edu
Objet : [3dem] File systems

Hi,

Can anyone describe some of their experience with deploying and using a distributed filesystem for image analysis? Is it appropriate to say that NFS is antiquated, slow and less secure than the younger systems like Lustre, Gluster, Ceph, PVFS2, or Fraunhofer?

Best wishes,
Reza

Reza Khayat, PhD
Assistant Professor
City College of New York
85 St. Nicholas Terrace CDI 12308
New York, NY 10031
(212) 650-6070
www.khayatlab.org

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