alt Hacker NewsI am currently looking for a way to take a legacy application that uses the filesystem as it's database and needs to support locking (flock) on FreeBSD and scale it horizontally (right now we only scale vertically and rebuilding from a corrupted FS and/or re-pulling our, backup, data from S3 takes too long if we lose a machine). We investigated NFS but the FreeBSD NFS performance was 1/10th or worse than on Linux and switching to Linux is not in the cards for us right now.
Does Object Mount support file locks (flock specifically) and FreeBSD? I see some mention of FreeBSD but I can't find anything on locking.
For context, we are working with a large number of small (<10KB if not <4KB) files normally.
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No BSD support unfortunately. Just Linux, Mac, windows.
According to this link:
https://vonng.com/en/pg/pgfs/
> The magic is: JuiceFS also supports using PostgreSQL as both metadata and object data storage backend! This means you only need to change JuiceFS’s backend to an existing PostgreSQL instance to get a database-based “filesystem.”
Sounds ideal for your kind of situation where a filesystem is being abused as a database :-)