Revision as of 01:33, 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

GmailFS + Samba
- Now your windows machines can access your files stored on google
Gluster with disks
- Setup
  - X Machines, each with equal Y (probably 2) amounts and Z sizes of partitions
- First layer
  - AFR machine X partition 1 with machine X+1 partition 2
  - You should now have X number of Z sized directories/partitions
- Second Layer
  - Stripe each of the AFR directories/partitions
  - This should be X * Z sized
- Example
  - 3 machines of 2 50GB sized partitions yields 1 150GB with the ability for 1 machine to go down at any point
Gluster with files
- I think it's possible, got to try it first though
Network Raid 5
- X machines each with 1 Z sized partitions
- one machine has all of these mounted and loopback files of Z sized on each
- add all of these loopback files as disks to a software raid
- has the same limitations as real raid 5 or 6 with real disks, but with machines
  - X machines will give you (X-1) * Z sized disk
- Example
  - 3 machines with 1 100GB partition in raid 5 yields 1 200GB disk with the ability for any machine but the master node to go down

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 * loopback drives
 ** Can make a file into a disk
+=Combination tricks=
+* GmailFS + Samba
+** Now your windows machines can access your files stored on google
+* Gluster with disks
+** Setup
+*** X Machines, each with equal Y (probably 2) amounts and Z sizes of partitions
+** First layer
+*** AFR machine X partition 1 with machine X+1 partition 2
+*** You should now have X number of Z sized directories/partitions
+** Second Layer
+*** Stripe each of the AFR directories/partitions
+*** This should be X * Z sized
+** Example
+*** 3 machines of 2 50GB sized partitions yields 1 150GB with the ability for 1 machine to go down at any point
+* Gluster with files
+** I think it's possible, got to try it first though
+* Network Raid 5
+** X machines each with 1 Z sized partitions
+** one machine has all of these mounted and loopback files of Z sized on each
+** add all of these loopback files as disks to a software raid
+** has the same limitations as real raid 5 or 6 with real disks, but with machines
+*** X machines will give you (X-1) * Z sized disk
+** Example
+*** 3 machines with 1 100GB partition in raid 5 yields 1 200GB disk with the ability for any machine but the master node to go down