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Is GlusterFS any good?..

Posted: 22nd July 2009 by as in Distributed File Systems, Linux

GlusterFS description sounds very promising: easy configurable, fault tolerant distributed file system. It promises petabytes of storage on a single name space on a commodity hardware.
It implements mirroring and stripe modes which makes it possible to store big files over a set of smaller storage servers.
The question is how easy the system can be extended [...]