GlusterFS VS Go IPFS

https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/894

And apparently apart from modern coreutils using that, it is mostly gentoo users hitting the bugs in lseek.

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Just because Red Hat will stop selling commercial support for their product, does not mean GlusterFS itself is dying. It's an open source project like any other - https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs

https://www.gluster.org/ Is the way to do this across nodes

This allows us to fetch the desired quality of the video as per the user's request, and once the media file finishes processing, it will be uploaded to a distributed file storage such as HDFS, GlusterFS, or an object storage such as Amazon S3 for later retrieval during streaming.

GlusterFS

But where can we store files at scale? Well, object storage is what we're looking for. Object stores break data files up into pieces called objects. It then stores those objects in a single repository, which can be spread out across multiple networked systems. We can also use distributed file storage such as HDFS or GlusterFS.

GlusterFS - same as above (https://www.gluster.org/)

What you look for is a clustered file system. Like https://www.gluster.org/. As long as all units are closeby with low latency there are a couple solutions that allow you to create distributed storage solutions of various kinds. Key value stores applenty, clustered file systems that pretent to be one file system etc. If you have geographically distributed solutions with high latencies it becomes harder. Most open source systems don't work really well in this scenario. There were a couple attempts like Hydrabase but they didn't go so far. It normally is solved by doing two clusters and then replicate between them.

I'd imagine most managed service providers are going to require a credit card, though most of them have a free tier. If you want to take an unmanaged approach, maybe look into Gluster. I've used it before and never had issue with it, but I also had an infrastructure team that set it up, so I'm not familiar with the challenges that way: https://www.gluster.org/

nice/renice isn’t what it used to be[0].

Bandwidth limiting is not built in[1].

[0] - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10342470/process-nicenes...

[1] - https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/issues/3065

For me, https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/issues/9044 is the main blocker atm and https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/issues/2167 is still around and annoying.

It makes me wonder if you use the IPFS FUSE mount and symlink an IPNS address of files that you want to sync if it would be read by Dropbox.

I'm using the IPFS fuse mount to load mine into Plex/Jellyfin. It's nice that I can load a movie into a virtual directory on IPFS and my home and remote servers get updated automatically. (when I update my IPNS) So you could run an official solidaritycinema IPNS address that people load into their Plex as a library.

Maybe tangentially related, I've been interested in IPFS as a network medium. ( Using the IPFS fuse mount ) Rather than syncing the entire file it syncs the Library list. When the Plex server makes the request for the file, IPFS negotiates the download. It makes it more like Netflix.

I've been messing with Plex + IPFS and I think it's pretty cool. The IPFS FUSE Mount gives IPFS network access to Plex as just a regular filesystem. To keep it private within my family I'm using a Private Swarm.

"Implement bandwidth limiting" https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/issues/3065

Going on six years now. You can use external tools (like "trickle") or your OS knobs.

So my plan is to setup plex on a relative's Raspberry Pi so that it works off the IPFS mounted network directories in the same way. They'll have a virtual library that takes basically no memory on their Pi unless they request a video, then it'll start caching to their machine.