Distributed, snapshotting, checksumming filesystems for FreeBSD

Elliot Finley efinley.lists at gmail.com
Tue Feb 28 04:25:59 UTC 2012


It's called moosefs.

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 9:37 PM, Kamil Choudhury
<Kamil.Choudhury at anserinae.net> wrote:
> The dream: a file system spread out over a variable,
> ever increasing number of hosts, presenting a single
> unified file system to any client host mounting the
> file system.
>
> >From the client's point of view, it is possible to
> snapshot the directory view that is presented. The
> client also has confidence that data written to the
> file system will be returned exactly as it went in.
>
> Now that I think about it, what I seem to be looking
> for is a network aware ZFS that uses hosts as vdevs.
>
> Is there such a thing out there?
>
> Kamil
>
>
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