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LizardFS is a highly scalable, fault-tolerant, POSIX-compatible,
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FUSE-based, high performance distributed filesystem, licensed under
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GNU General Public License version 3.
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LizardFS is an implementation of GoogleFS, and a fork of the earlier
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project, MooseFS. LizardFS supports writable snapshots (instant
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copies), undeleting files, automatic data rebalancing, self-healing,
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data tiering, periodic data patrols and many more.
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LizardFS system consists of a master server, one or more metadata
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logging servers (meta loggers), and many chunk servers, that store the
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data on their locally-attached drives. Both meta loggers and chunk
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servers can be added and removed without restarting the master server.
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Filesystem metadata is stored on the master server (and constantly
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replicated to meta loggers), whereas filesystem data is divided
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into chunks and spread as files over chunk servers, according
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to pre-defined 'goals', which can be set on file-, directory-, or
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filesystem level. A goal can be an n-way mirroring goal, n+1 xor-ed
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goal (each chunk divided into n parts and xor-ed to calculate one
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part of redundancy), or more sophisticated, erasure code based n+k
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redundancy, where n parts of each chunk are backed by k parts of
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redundancy data.
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A set of administrative commands exists to support querying and
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setting redundancy goals and trash preservation time. LizardFS is
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admin-friendly since any missing chunks can be provided from any sort
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of backup to any running chunk server.
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This package contains all binaries needed to run LizardFS
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system: mfsmaster, mfsmetalogger, mfschunkserver, as well as
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lizardfs-cgiserver (web-based monitoring console).
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You need an "mfs" user and group prior to building lizardfs.
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Something like this will suffice for most systems:
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groupadd -g 353 mfs
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useradd -u 353 -g 353 -d /var/lib/mfs mfs
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Feel free to use a different uid and gid if desired, but 353 is
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recommended to avoid conflicts with other stuff from SlackBuilds.org.
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It is also advisable to make name 'mfsmaster' pointing at your Master
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server across your network. It is not strictly required, but it will
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make things much easier. If you are unable to configure your DNS
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server, adding this line to /etc/hosts on each master, metalogger,
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chunkserver, and client machines will do:
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a.b.c.d mfsmaster mfsmaster.my-domain.ext
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where a.b.c.d is an IP address of your master server.
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Then on each node add '/etc/rc.d/rc.lizardfs start' to
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/etc/rc.d/rc.local (or wherever you find appropriate), and use
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'/etc/rc.d/rc.lizardfs setup' to configure which services should
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run on the server. Since most installations consists mostly of
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chunkservers, rc.lizardfs-chunkserver is marked executable by default
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(but will not run until rc.lizardfs-chunkserver or rc.lizardfs is
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added to rc.local, so no need to worry).
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