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Intermittent Windows Server network share freezes for some users

The preamble: I have the following setup - 2 Servers consisting of Windows 2003 R2 on Dell Poweredge 2950, dual quad core Xeons, 8GB RAM, MD1000 external RAID unit Both servers are setup with 5 network shares each (Shared, Groups, Users and some…
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GlusterFS vs Mogile vs Others?

I have been looking at GlusterFS and MogileFS (Ceph and BTRFS are off the cards for me, as they don't seem production ready yet). I am developing a web app for file sharing, that will store and retrieve files from a distributed file system. It's…
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Is Samba the right choice for me?

we have a distributed application which uses large amounts of content (all kind of files). There are several servers that need to access the content. Right now the content is stored on each server redundantly. But this is getting ugly. We want to…
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Distributed File System (DFS) and MS SQL 2008

There are two physical servers on which we want to install MS SQL 2008 and our application. Our application is using DB in separate *.mdf file. Our application works only on one server at the point of time. Can we create this file (*.mdf) on the…
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Clustering filesystem for small files

I'm looking for a distributed filesystem which I could use for storing lots of small files (<1MB usually). What I want to get is: 2 servers which have the fs mounted themselves and mirror the data locking support (among reachable nodes) some kind…
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Distributed SSD cache for network storage

Our small computing cluster has 3 computing nodes and 1 file server. The file server has around 70TB data to be accessed by the 3 computing nodes. All of the 3 computing nodes have 3 4TB SSDs which are now idling. Currently the computing nodes use…
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Lustre glitch: latency of minutes

Using a HPC lustre filesystem, we occasionally experience glitchiness where even simply opening a terminal and typing "ls" can take minutes to return. That is, any process that involves the filesystem has random massive latency (but generally…
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K3S arm64 distributed files systems

I deployed a K3S Cluster on arm64 and I need to have a DFS directly on-premise, It will be better to have it running on the kubernetes stack. Regarding DFS choices there are some options, but...: GlusterFS: Unfortunately CSI drivers is not currently…
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DFS Namespace unavailable at login

Edit: I was not fully aware of what was going on with my issue, but it has since been fixed. See my answer below. Background We are having some issues with DFS namespaces in our environment after a change to how we configured our environment and I…
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Is it practical to keep home directories on OpenAFS?

I am a sysadmin by trade, and I do what I do at work at home as well for fun. I have a Gentoo Linux laptop, Raspberry Pis running Raspian, a Gentoo server, ARM devices running Debian and have various Android devices. I am always wrestling and…
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file systems - theoretical

I have some theoretical questions which I'm not clear with, so if someone can explain I would be very grateful, it's related to file systems. What I want to ask, in a distributed system, if we have file services structured out of a directory…
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Asynchronous file replication over long distances, with buffering

I'm looking for a filesystem that can replicate over long distances, and tolerate being offline for extended periods of time by using a local buffer, which should be a disk buffer, to queue up changes to replicate. DRBD was an ideal candidate with…
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Is it possible to configure hdfs in a federation mode and in an HA mode in the same time?

I don't understand if it possible to configure HDFS in both modes in the same time. Does it make sense? Can somebody show a simple configuration of HDFS in both modes? (nameNode1, nameNode2, nameNodeStandby1, nameNodeStandby2)
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How to safely store data and DBs on Kubernetes (or similar) on DigitalOcean

It boils down to setting up a private cloud on something like Digital Oceans versus another hosting solution like GCE or AWS. The latter have redundant data stores that can be safely used as volumes, while the former provides a bigger per-instance…
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Glusterd won't start after node crash

We had a 2 node cluster running GlusterFS. It's a 4 volume cluster, replica 2, one brick per server. Dead server: nnfs02 Live server with all data: nnfs03 New server: nnfs01 After nnfs02 died, we added nnfs01 and was able to remove the bricks for…
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