Monthly archive: August 2009

12
Aug

MooseFS 1.5.12 on CentOS 5.3 vmware image

For those of you who would like to test MooseFS functionality i have made vmware container with version 5.3 of CentOS and MooseFS 1.5.12 installed and configured.
To test it, download the vmware container and run it with Free Vmware Player
Steps to follow:
1) download and unpack the vmware container
2) install vmware player if you dont have [...]

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Category: CentOS 5.3, MooseFS ( mfs ) 1 Comment
12
Aug

MooseFS distributed, fault tolerant storage engine

MooseFS is a fault tolerant distributed storage system.  It is verry easy to configure, install and maintain.
It consists in one metaserver and multiple chunkservers installed over the network. Chunkservers can be added and removed at any time neither it requires to stop the the filesystem nor to reconfigure the metaserver.
MooseFS will split your files into chunk [...]

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Category: Gnu C, MooseFS ( mfs ), Python 0 Comments
11
Aug

Cloudstore (KosmosFS), An open source implementation of GFS

From their website:

HIGH PERFORMANCE SCALABLE STORAGE
Web-scale applications require a scalable storage infrastructure to process vast amounts of data. CloudStore (formerly, Kosmos filesystem) is an open-source high performance distributed filesystem designed to meet such an infrastructure need:
CloudStore is implemented in C++ using standard system components such as STL, boost libraries, aio, log4cpp.
CloudStore is integrated with Hadoop and Hypertable. [...]

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Category: C++, Cloudstore (KosmosFS), Gnu C, Python 0 Comments
11
Aug

xfs error uuid.h not found

while trying to compile KosmosFS (kfs) version 0.3 i got into this error:

/usr/include/xfs/linux.h:20:23: error: uuid/uuid.h: No such file or directory

the error disappeared after installing e2fsprogs-devel package, also make sure you also have installed xfsprogs and xfsprogs-devel

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Category: Dependencies 0 Comments