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POHMELFS returns

Posted Mar 3, 2012 10:01 UTC (Sat) by TRS-80 (subscriber, #1804)
In reply to: POHMELFS returns by nix
Parent article: POHMELFS returns

Have you looked at GlusterFS? It stores files on a regular filesystem, and then makes them network accessible, optionally clustering, striping and mirroring them.

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POHMELFS returns

Posted Mar 5, 2012 23:46 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

I haven't looked at it, though I've heard of it. I'll give it a look: at first sight it looks really rather nice.

POHMELFS returns

Posted Apr 13, 2012 19:15 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

No good. glusterfs cannot support inotify, because it is based on FUSE, and FUSE doesn't support inotify. Currently, it seems, only in-kernel distributed filesystems can support inotify -- and, as far as I can see, none of them do.