Well swift isn't a file system persay its just an object store which uses one of many possible underlying flies systems and offers a mechanism to do asynchronous rsync based replication if needed.<br><br>I use swift on top of gluster very effectively it provides its own object store API's plus AWS compatible API and allows more traditional access to legacy apps via its native fuse client, and NFS in addition it can be utilized with Samba and CTDB to provide clustered CIFS access if needed.<br><br>I've also heard of people who use CEHP with Swift.<br><br>So there are many options here.<br>The one catch is if you are using a distribution based on RHEL including but not limited too CentOS or scientific Linux Gluster is definitely a wider deployed and easier install than CEHP. In fact there was a discussion about a few months back on the Redhat OpenStack list and it was pretty much decided much to the dismay of a CEHP fan who started the discussion that at least for now RDO and RHOS would only support Gluster and more traditional backend like local disks, SANS, etc. As a backend for Swift.<br><br><span style="font-family:Prelude, Verdana, san-serif;"><br><br></span><span id="signature"><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;color: #999999;">-- Sent from my HP Pre3</div><br></span><span style="color:navy; font-family:Prelude, Verdana, san-serif; "><hr align="left" style="width:75%">On Nov 26, 2013 17:26, Randy Breunling <rbreunling@gmail.com> wrote: <br><br></span><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>I'm relatively new to the gluster community and wanted to know if there's anyone out there that can talk to me, or point me to comparative information on the following:<br>
</div>- glusterFS<br></div>- SWIFT<br></div>- CEPH<br><br></div>I am interested in a solution that is object-based and will scale into single-digit petabytes.<br>I'd like to know of experiences with these solutions that have to do with large-scale deployments.<br>
<br></div>If this is not the/a correct forum to discuss this...please let me know.<br><br></div>Thanks...<br><br></div>--Randy Breunling<br><br></div><a href="mailto:rbreunling@gmail.com">rbreunling@gmail.com</a><br> <br>
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