After many years, I've just started testing #MooseFS again.

[stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

After many years, I've just started testing #MooseFS again.
I used it in the past and it was great. It supports #FreeBSD and the performance was quite decent.

I can definitely see some use cases for it as MooseFS is fully POSIX-compliant

[nux@fosstodon.org]

@stefano nice, worth a check now that IBM killed glusterfs.

[anubhav@hachyderm.io]

@Nux Would you happen to have a URL handy to some blog post or article on the killing of GlusterFS? I am superficially interested in things file system.

@stefano

[nux@fosstodon.org]

@anubhav @stefano I got nothing, but I've been following their mailing list and it's pretty clear from there.
Glusterfs, ovirt etc, have not made it.

[winterschon@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@Nux "have not made it", meaning what exactly?

1. oVirt is used as the base for various public cloud infrastructure and is currently in EL10. The main project site has updates from September:

- https://blogs.ovirt.org/2025/09/ovirt-project-update/

2. GlusterFS was not "killed by IBM". Development efforts (irrespective to IBM owning Redhat) were stagnating two or three years ago for a variety of reasons.

The primary reason from a storage architecture view is that GlusterFS performance is outclassed, its scalability is limited to small footprints, and its usage/popularity (while it exists) is minimal compared to alternative clustered file-systems which have shaped the landscape over the past 5+ years (there's probably a blog post somewhere with discussions).

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All of that aside, IBM is vastly innovative and consistently amazing, so what's the point in dredging up displeasure or hatred for Big Blue?

@anubhav @stefano

[grahamperrin@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@stefano ah,

<https://moosefs.com/>

For a melancholy moment, I was reminded of Wuala. In the good old days, before LaCie got its hand on it.