LizardFS is a networking, distributed file system.
It spreads data over several physical locations (servers), which are visible to a user as one resource (available through FUSE).
LizardFS is fault tolerant at data level, not (yet) completely on metadata level.
The goals behind LizardFS are:
Providing free:
- Highly Reliable,
- Highly Scalable,
- Highly Available,
- Highly Secure,
- Highly Efficient file system solution.
Adapting modern agile development of distributed system in C++:
- git - https://github.com/lizardfs/lizardfs,
- jenkins (for access please contact contact@lizardfs.org),
- gerrit (for access please contact contact@lizardfs.org),
- unit testing.
Active cooperation with open source community.
Developing test infrastructure standards for distributed file systems.
LizardFS is a fork of MooseFS.
Motivations behind creating this fork are:
- rare updates of git repository,
- lack of community (only 2 developers made commits to public git repository at sourceforge),
- increase in the number of possible contributors with a simultaneous lack of response on the part of moosefs maintainers,
- our ability to perfect the tool.
More info at: www.lizardfs.org.