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I ran a FreeBSD ZFS NFS server for a cluster for quite a while. I loved it. It was simple and stable. The thing that led me away from FreeBSD (aside from IT not being happy with an "alternative" OS), was that I needed a clustered filesystem. We outgrew the stage where I was comfortable with a single node and where upgrading storage meant a new JBOD.

Are there any FreeBSD-centric answers to Ceph or Gluster or Lustre or BeeGFS?

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This changed a couple of years ago but GlusterFS does run on FreeBSD now.

It's not BSD centric but it works.

https://www.freshports.org/net/glusterfs/

The handbook and wiki has info on FreeBSD Highly Available Storage:

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/disks/#disks-hast

https://wiki.freebsd.org/HAST

I haven't checked on it in a while but dragonfly has HAMMER2, the last docs https://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/blob/57614c517...

Might be a future alternative in the space.

HAMMER2 is not yet clustered, as far as I know. They're still working on single-node functionality (I think).

https://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/blob_plain/HEA... was last updated in 2018, and at the time much of the clustering logic is described as "under development" or "not specced."

Ceph is supported on FreeBSD

https://www.freshports.org/net/ceph14/

Ceph 14 was EOL on 2021-06-30. There are two major releases past v14 that don’t seem to be available through freshports. I’m not sure I’d qualify this as supported, and definitely not actively supported.

https://docs.ceph.com/en/latest/releases/#active-releases

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