Use cases
What do you use or plan to use XtreemFS for? |
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Replacement for NFS/CIFS file server |
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| Home directories |
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Home server/media collection |
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Backups |
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Storage backend for mail server |
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Storage backend for source repositories (e.g. SVN) |
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Storage backend for web site (e.g. image store, S3-like applications) |
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Storage for parallel computing (Hadoop/MapReduce, HPC) |
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Storing files across multiple data centers (e.g. grid or cloud computing) |
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What type of files do/would you store on XtreemFS?
What kind of access pattern does/would your application have? |
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Other use cases: |
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Features
How important are these current and potential features of XtreemFS for you? |
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Read-only file replication (replicated write-once files) |
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Read-write file replication (strong consistency, regular file system semantics) |
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Read-write file replication with "eventual consistency" (S3-like semantics) |
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Replicated metadata server (MRC) |
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Client-side data caching |
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Disconnected operation (similar to CODA/AFS) |
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Dynamic OSD addition/removal |
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Federated operation (individual installations can be federated into a large federation. Each installation can still operate when disconnected.) |
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Hierarchical storage management (e.g. OSDs with a tape backend, support for slow media) |
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Parallel I/O and high throughput |
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File system performance monitoring/analysis |
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Native support for Infiniband |
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RAID5/6 |
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SSL/X.509 support |
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POSIX ACLs |
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Windows multi-user support |
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Quotas |
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Checksums |
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Encryption of file data |
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POSIX compatibility (regular file systems semantics) |
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Network coordinates based on latencies for replica selection |
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Static configuration (data center maps) for replica selection |
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Features you would like to have in XtreemFS? |
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Clients
Which clients do you need? |
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Linux FUSE client |
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Linux in-kernel client |
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Windows 32-bit client |
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Windows 64-bit client |
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Windows in-kernel client |
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Mac OS X client |
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FreeBSD client |
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Solaris SPARC client |
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Solaris AMD64 client |
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Client for mobile devices |
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Linkable/LD_PRELOAD-able C library "libxtreemfs" |
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Native Java client |
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Hadoop file system driver (HDFS interface) |
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Amazon S3-like interface |
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Any other operating system or interface? |
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Target Installation
What does your (planned) installation look like? |
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Number of MRCs |
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Number of OSDs |
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Server OS |
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Number of clients |
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Number of machines |
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Number of files/directories |
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Environment |
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Network connection |
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Anything else about your installation? |
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Other networked file systems
Which other networked file systems do you use? |
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NFS |
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Samba/CIFS |
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AFS/Coda |
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Lustre |
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CEPH |
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GlusterFS |
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Panasas |
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PVFS |
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HDFS (Hadoop File System) |
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Others: |
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Questions |
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Do you need commercial support? |
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Are you interested in contributing to the development of XtreemFS? |
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How did you learn about XtreemFS? |
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Problems you have/have had with XtreemFS: |
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Other comments: |
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