Moose
MooseFS is a distributed file system designed for high availability, fault tolerance, and scalability across multiple commodity servers. It allows aggregation of disk space from many servers into a single, seamless namespace, presenting it as a single mountable resource.
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2008
- Category
- technology
- Problem solved
- MooseFS was created to address the challenges of building scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant storage systems using commodity hardware. It aimed to provide a unified namespace across disparate disks, protect data against hardware failures, and scale storage capacity and performance independently without relying on expensive, monolithic storage arrays or complex block-level solutions like iSCSI.
- Platforms
- NetBSD (client), macOS (client), Linux (server and client), FreeBSD (server and client)
Related technologies
Notable users
- Hosting providers
- Small to medium cloud computing providers
- Organizations needing cost-effective, on-premises object/file storage
- Web services requiring scalable file storage