[Gllug] Filesystem available to both windows and linux

[dave.lambley at gmail.com]

Do your file stores need to be mounted as file systems, or would it be workable to access your files via http? If you can, you can use one of the many object store systems that are appearing. My work uses MogileFS to dump vast amounts of audio in to. It mostly works well.

Dave

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From: tid <td at bloogaloo.co.uk>
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Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 21:34:44 
To: Greater London Linux User Group<gllug at gllug.org.uk>
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Subject: [Gllug] Filesystem available to both windows and linux

Hi,

Where I'm currently working, the storage environment has *ahem* 'grown
organically' and there are a couple
of infortrend iSCSI NAS boxes serving up storage to 2 linux servers,
which then export these filesystems
as samba shares to a mixture of linux and windows servers. Yes, you
read that right. Linux to linux samba
shares. I'm looking for a better solution, and given that the windows
servers will eventually go away, am
wondering what my options are. I could just go for straight NFS
mounts, but will be serving small amounts
of video so am wondering if there is a better solution ...

Any suggestions gratefully received.

Tid
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