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DRBD vs GlusterFS

A side-by-side look at DRBD and GlusterFS. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

DRBD

DRBD

System & Hardware

DRBD is open-source software that provides disk replication and failover clustering functionality for Linux systems. It allows mirroring of block devices between servers to provide high availability and redundancy.

replicationfailoverclusteringhigh-availabilityredundancy
GlusterFS

GlusterFS

Network & Admin

GlusterFS is an open source, distributed file system that can scale out to store petabytes of data. It aggregates disk storage across servers into a single global namespace.

distributedfile-systemscalableopen-source

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