lizardfs VS GlusterFS

Compare lizardfs vs GlusterFS and see what are their differences.

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lizardfs GlusterFS
4 19
944 4,478
0.2% 1.4%
3.3 6.4
7 months ago about 1 hour ago
C++ C
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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lizardfs

Posts with mentions or reviews of lizardfs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-30.

GlusterFS

Posts with mentions or reviews of GlusterFS. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-06.
  • Tell HN: ZFS silent data corruption bugfix – my research results
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Dec 2023
    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.

  • Linux deserves a better class of friends
    1 project | /r/linux | 1 Jul 2023
    This Product Appendix does not apply to online service offerings managed by Red Hat or generally available open source projects such as www.wildfly.org, www.fedoraproject.org, www.openstack.redhat.com, www.gluster.org, www.centos.org, okd.io, Ansible Project Software or other community projects.
  • Which distributed filesystem to use on a 4 node cluster?
    1 project | /r/homelab | 5 May 2023
    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
  • Setting up a 2 node distributed network share
    1 project | /r/homelab | 22 Sep 2022
    https://www.gluster.org/ Is the way to do this across nodes
  • System Design: Netflix
    5 projects | dev.to | 21 Sep 2022
    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.
  • What's the best way to periodically sync two remote servers?
    2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 8 Sep 2022
    GlusterFS
  • System Design: The complete course
    31 projects | dev.to | 16 Aug 2022
    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.
  • First Apartment and First Homelab
    2 projects | /r/homelab | 4 Jul 2022
    GlusterFS - same as above (https://www.gluster.org/)
  • Multiple DS units acting as one?
    1 project | /r/synology | 23 Mar 2022
    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.
  • Upload pdf file to mongodb atlas
    1 project | /r/mongodb | 21 Mar 2022
    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/

What are some alternatives?

When comparing lizardfs and GlusterFS you can also consider the following projects:

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

minio - The Object Store for AI Data Infrastructure

Ceph - Ceph is a distributed object, block, and file storage platform

Tahoe-LAFS - The Tahoe-LAFS decentralized secure filesystem.

Seaweed File System - 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. [Moved to: https://github.com/seaweedfs/seaweedfs]

Go IPFS - IPFS implementation in Go [Moved to: https://github.com/ipfs/kubo]

Apache Hadoop - Apache Hadoop

btrfs - Haskell bindings to the btrfs API

rozofs - Scale-out storage using erasure coding

OpenAFS - Fork of OpenAFS from git.openafs.org for visualization

LeoFS - The LeoFS Storage System