[PVE-User] 2.0: a matter of taste

Martin Maurer martin at proxmox.com
Wed Oct 26 17:40:53 CEST 2011


If you want to learn more about sheepdog or gluster got to their pages, this is the Proxmox VE user list.
Both are not used in standard setups so you cannot expect much here.

Martin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pve-user-bounces at pve.proxmox.com [mailto:pve-user-
> bounces at pve.proxmox.com] On Behalf Of Eneko Lacunza
> Sent: Mittwoch, 26. Oktober 2011 17:33
> To: pve-user at pve.proxmox.com
> Subject: Re: [PVE-User] 2.0: a matter of taste
> 
> Hi,
> 
> El mié, 26-10-2011 a las 14:27 +0000, Martin Maurer escribió:
> > > Have you checked gluster, recently adquired by RedHat?
> > > www.gluster.org / www.gluster.com
> > [Martin Maurer]
> > Yes, we know gluster. Also some use it already (search forum).
> 
> > > As far as I can tell, gluster and sheepdog are quite similar, but
> > > gluster works at filesystem-level and sheepdog at block-level.
> > This is a MAJOR difference.
> 
> That's ok, I was thinking from a user perspective;
> 
> - Sheepdog is "similar" to LVM on hypervisor
> - Gluster is raw file in NAS
> 
> So if I understand right, it is like choosing from LVM/rawfile but with a
> redundant-scalable backend.
> 
> What system would be better, for speed, ease of administration, ...? Is it the
> same as choosing LVM or rawfile, or are there other things to take into
> account?
> 
> Cheers
> Eneko
> 
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