BeeGFS, the Parallel Cluster File System

Can someone explain how this differs from something like HDFS? I'm kind of confused as to why there's no comparisons or mentions of HDFS here which makes me think I'm missing something important about what this provides that's special. Is it the easy to install part?

<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.beegfs.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;BeeGFS_EULA.txt" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.beegfs.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;BeeGFS_EULA.txt</a><p>Umm, how is this compatible with GPL v2? It seems more restrictive (enterprise features, parts that would be better enforced by a trademark policy).

found this interesting:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;indico.cern.ch&#x2F;event&#x2F;346931&#x2F;session&#x2F;4&#x2F;contribution&#x2F;62&#x2F;attachments&#x2F;684674&#x2F;940478&#x2F;beegfs-at-desy.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;indico.cern.ch&#x2F;event&#x2F;346931&#x2F;session&#x2F;4&#x2F;contribution&#x2F;6...</a><p>&gt; Plain BeeGFS is as reliable as your hardware<p>currently i would give MooseFS, orangefs or lizardfs a try.<p>Had experience with ceph and glusterfs and both I can not recommend.

The company I work for has been running BeeGFS for 6 years with no issues. Write and read speeds on Dell storage hardware match or exceed the NetApp appliances we use.<p>We do occasionally have issues where ALL storage nodes must be rebooted but other than it works great.

The only thing I wonder is if the name is a pun on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bee_Gees" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bee_Gees</a>, the band from the 1950s.

Actually there isn&#x27;t a easy file system which spans 3 computers and scales to thousand and is eay to install. There are only one&#x27;s which are hard to install, or needing more than 3 computers, etc..

I will say that I know two people that have independently tried fairly large trials (400TB+) of Lustre, GlusterFS, and BeeGFS, and BeeGFS was their eventual favorite.

This doesn&#x27;t fill the huge gap for Cloud NAS. GlusterFS is hugely complicated and a fragile install, SoftNAS has (anecdotally) poor performance on high-io... but it&#x27;s closer. Amazon hasn&#x27;t launched their EFS product to General Availability Yet.<p>So wtf do we do when we need a 5TB shared storage platform across some EC2 nodes?

Weird, the URL to the GPL&#x27;d source code behind a registration wall.

It&#x27;s a tragedy to think of how deep is your love for the project. Wonder how long it will be stayin&#x27; alive? Gives me a night fever just thinking about it.