Ask HN: What distributed file system would you use in 2024?

• seaweedfs

  37 21,385 9.9 Go

  SeaweedFS is a fast distributed storage system for blobs, objects, files, and data lake, for billions of files! Blob store has O(1) disk seek, cloud tiering. Filer supports Cloud Drive, cross-DC active-active replication, Kubernetes, POSIX FUSE mount, S3 API, S3 Gateway, Hadoop, WebDAV, encryption, Erasure Coding.

  

What distributed file system would you use for a greenfield homelab project today?

Requirements / desires:

* Reliable

* Performant

* Easy to setup and operate

Some options:

SeaweedFS - https://github.com/seaweedfs/seaweedfs

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JuiceFS - https://github.com/juicedata/juicefs

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MooseFS - https://github.com/moosefs/moosefs

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Do people still use Ceph or Gluster? I don't think they qualify as "easy to setup and operate".

Thanks!

• hn-search

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What distributed file system would you use for a greenfield homelab project today?

Requirements / desires:

* Reliable

* Performant

* Easy to setup and operate

Some options:

SeaweedFS - https://github.com/seaweedfs/seaweedfs

289 hits: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=seaweedfs&sort=byPopularity&type=all

JuiceFS - https://github.com/juicedata/juicefs

2047 hits: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=juicefs&sort=byPopularity&type=all

MooseFS - https://github.com/moosefs/moosefs

126 hits: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=moosefs&sort=byPopularity&type=all

Do people still use Ceph or Gluster? I don't think they qualify as "easy to setup and operate".

Thanks!

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com featured

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• juicefs-csi-driver

  3 195 9.2 Go

  JuiceFS CSI Driver

  

What distributed file system would you use for a greenfield homelab project today?

Requirements / desires:

* Reliable

* Performant

* Easy to setup and operate

Some options:

SeaweedFS - https://github.com/seaweedfs/seaweedfs

289 hits: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=seaweedfs&sort=byPopularity&type=all

JuiceFS - https://github.com/juicedata/juicefs

2047 hits: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=juicefs&sort=byPopularity&type=all

MooseFS - https://github.com/moosefs/moosefs

126 hits: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=moosefs&sort=byPopularity&type=all

Do people still use Ceph or Gluster? I don't think they qualify as "easy to setup and operate".

Thanks!

• MooseFS

  5 1,601 4.8 C

  MooseFS – Open Source, Petabyte, Fault-Tolerant, Highly Performing, Scalable Network Distributed File System (Software-Defined Storage)

  

What distributed file system would you use for a greenfield homelab project today?

Requirements / desires:

* Reliable

* Performant

* Easy to setup and operate

Some options:

SeaweedFS - https://github.com/seaweedfs/seaweedfs

289 hits: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=seaweedfs&sort=byPopularity&type=all

JuiceFS - https://github.com/juicedata/juicefs

2047 hits: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=juicefs&sort=byPopularity&type=all

MooseFS - https://github.com/moosefs/moosefs

126 hits: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=moosefs&sort=byPopularity&type=all

Do people still use Ceph or Gluster? I don't think they qualify as "easy to setup and operate".

Thanks!

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