[PetiteCloud] site changes

Aryeh Friedman aryeh.friedman at gmail.com
Tue Feb 11 12:14:26 PST 2014


On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Michael Thoreson <m.thoreson at c4labs.ca>wrote:

> Have you considered GlusterFS? It has native support for qemu qcow(2)
> images and GlusterFS has been recently made to work with OpenStack
> http://www.gluster.org/category/openstack/.
>
> It will give automatic scalability, fail-over and fault tolerance.
>
> I had glusterfs working on Linux hosts as storage backing for VMWare
> Workstation, VirtualBox and in a virtual lap I was able to use it as base
> for high avail ISCSI and used carp for IP fail-over.
>

Worth a look but a quick note on qcow2 we do not use it nor plan to (it has
a *CRITICAL* security flaw [like all sparse formats])... see our forth
coming white paper "Sparse Disk Formats Considered Harmful" (not yet
committed to paper) and
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-virtualization/2014-February/002210.html
-- 
Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org
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