Archive of category "Filesystems"
In this example i will try to install cloudstore ( kosmosfs or simply kfs ) on a fedora 10 linux operating system
and will use the following folder structure:
/CLOUD
/storage - folder to mount kfs storage later
/source/kfs-0.3/ – source code
user@computer:$ [root@localhost ~]# mkdir /CLOUD/source;cd /CLOUD/source[root@localhost source]# wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/kosmosfs/kosmosfs/kfs-0.3/kfs-0.3.tar.gz[root@localhost source]# tar zxvf kfs-0.3.tar.gz[root@localhost source]# cd kfs-0.3[root@localhost kfs-0.3]# mkdir build;cd [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]