Revision as of 01:08, 2 January 2008

Status

GmailFS
- relies on internet upload and download speeds
- Uses Fuse
DavFS
- Can use Fuse, or native
- box.net gives away davfs space for free
  - Each account is limited to at max 1G of 20MB files
- Can have ACLs
harddrives
- Cheap and getting cheaper
- The tried and true way of storing data
- Not extremely fast, but we've been living with them just fine so far
ram
- Expensive, but getting cheaper
- Extremely fast, fastest storage out there
NFS
- Old, it works, but has it's quirks
- Mainly only Linux
Samba
- Windows, Linux, Mac, everyone can talk and serve this
GlusterFS
- Mainly used for raid 0, raid 1, or striping over harddrives on a network
- Linux only that I've seen
- Clients use Fuse
EncFS
- Encrypts at the file level
- Uses Fuse
- GmailFS has this as an intergrated option
TrueCrypt
- Encrypts at the disk level
- Only Linux and Windows
software raid
- Only Linux
- Can do any raid level
- Uses disks/partitions only
loopback drives
- Can make a file into a disk

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-=Things that hold data=
+=Roles=
+==Hold data==
 * GmailFS
 * DavFS
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 * ram, tmpfs
-=Things that serve data=
+==Serve data to other machines==
 * NFS
 * Samba
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 * GlusterFS
-=Things that encrypt data=
+==Encrypt data==
 * EncFS
 * TrueCrypt
-=Things that unify/replicate/both=
+==unify/replicate/both==
 * software raid
 * GlusterFS
-=Things Linux can do=
-* loopback drives
 =Things mentioned above=