DownloadKey features
From GlusterDocumentation
FIXME: Give more detailed explanation for each points
- Posix compliant
- Inbuilt replication
- Striping Optional (Recommended mainly for very large files)
- Performance enhancement to over come the network latency problem
- Native RDMA support (using IB-verbs library)
- Inbuilt High availability to support node failures.
- Completely in userspace.
- Files and folders are kept in backend in native format. Doesn't manage block level file management. (similar to NFS exported dir)
- works smoothly over any commodity hardware
- Works fine on GNU/Linux, Mac OSX, Solaris, FreeBSD
- web embeddable filesystem.
- booster module to bypass FUSE layer for I/O calls
- scales seemlessly to 100s - 1000s of servers
- features are implemented as modular way (called translator)
