Is there a lightweight storage solution that makes shared storage easy without needing a NAS? I’m looking for something that isn’t necessarily highly available. I’m looking to be able to shift services around without having the complexity and overhead of Ceph. My current option is Unison which isn’t ideal but workable.

    • adry@piefed.social
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      11 hours ago

      +1 I use it to on all of my devices for sharing 1 folder, just set one as introducer, and keep adding nodes (e.g. phone, Work mini, laptops, PC, …) Once you have that set, start adding folders as needed for specific cases (e.g. a folder shared among all mentioned except for Work mini.)

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    11 hours ago

    What volume of data you are discussing? How many physical nodes? Can you give a complete usage example of what you want to achieve?

    In general, there’s a steep change in making things distributed properly, and distributed systems are often designed for big and complex situations, so they “can afford” being big and complex too.

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        10 hours ago

        Gluster? I don’t know much about it. As someone else asked, how much data are you talking about? Do you need a file store (mutable files), or are you ok with an object store (immutable)?

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          Gluster is abandoned for the most part

          I’m mostly looking for a easy way to move files between VMs automatically when I move containers. I think it should be possible with scripting and rsync/unison

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        6 hours ago

        Me too. I don’t know what OP means by “distributed” but “not highly available” and at the same time “rsync or unison is enough”, “but not NFS”.

        This is somehow contradicting itself.