GlusterFS is a cluster file-system capable of scaling to several peta-bytes. It aggregates various storage bricks over Infiniband RDMA or TCP/IP interconnect into one large parallel network file system. GlusterFS is based on a stackable user space design without compromising performance. Stackable user-space design: easy to install, extensible, portable, kernel independent, rapid development and advanced features such as distributed bdb backend, web embeddable, automatic replication, pluggable I/O schedulers. GlusterFS can scale to multiple Peta bytes and 100s of GB/s throughput. GlusterFS can sustain 1 GB/s per storage brick over Infiniband RDMA. Performance scales as you add more storage bricks. GlusterFS self-heals itself on the fly. There is no fsck. Storage backend is accessible directly as regular files and folders (NFS style). With replication enabled, GlusterFS can with-stand hardware failures. GlusterFS is a Free Software released under GNU GPL v3 license. This means you are allowed freely copy, distribute or improve this software. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.
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