LizardFS

LizardFS is an open source distributed file system that is POSIX-compliant and licensed under GPLv3. It was released in 2013 as fork of MooseFS.

LizardFS is a distributed, scalable and fault-tolerant file system. This is achieved by spreading data over several physical servers and their associated physical data storage. This storage is presented to the end-user as a single logical name space. The file system is designed so that it is possible to add more disks and servers “on the fly”, without the need for any server reboots or shut-downs.

Description

LizardFS is used as the underlying distributed file system for a product developed by CloudWeavers that uses the OpenNebula cloud management platform, marketed as hyper-converged infrastructure. Other possible use cases include storage for cloud hosting services, render farms and backups.

High availability and the native Microsoft Windows client are licensed features that are available under a support contract. Alternatively, a time-limited trial version of the Windows client is available and high availability can be achieved manually by scripting.

See also

• Hyper-converged infrastructure
• Distributed file system
• List of file systems, Distributed parallel fault-tolerant file systems section
• MooseFS
• BeeGFS

External links

• LizardFS official website
• LizardFS on GitHub
• LizardFS official documentation