At 05:13 AM 1/12/2009, Stas Oskin wrote: >In my opinion, The main benefit of Lustre, when compared to >GlusterFS, is the transparent HA of data (distribution done behind >the scenes), addition and removal of nodes (don't know if they >support data rebalancing - KosmosFS does), and management. I believe this is on the gluster roadmap? along with a gui configuration tool. >GlusterFS of course major points are complete meta-data dispersion, >which prevents a single point of failure, and very easy start (just >install and get it running). This is one of the things that frustrated me most with these things (starting with CODA--whatever happened to that?). the meta-data always complicated things and introduced a single point of failure which mitigates any HA value. Keith
