On 5/17/2011 11:57 AM, Michael Stowe wrote:
>>
>> Has anyone tried using BackupPC and MooseFS (http://www.moosefs.org/)?
>>
>
> No, but it seems like a *really* bad idea -- the concept of slow, off-box,
> redundant storage isn't a really good fit with the concepts of pooling and
> linking.

Actually the concept looks good.  It does rely on a single master node 
though.

> Since it's fuse-based, there's the possibility it doesn't support
> hard-linking at all, which would make it completely unfeasible.  (I don't
> know, it's not obvious what it supports from the documentation.)

The docs say it does handle hardlinks - but it is hard to tell if it 
does it well enough for backuppc.  I'd expect the fuse layer to be the 
bottleneck in the design - at least if you have several data servers.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com


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