Top 15 Lustre Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

Lustre is a massively parallel filesystem designed for high-performance, large-scale data.

Lustre is mature and open source (GPL2), running stably in production at many hundreds of sites around the world. Eight of the top ten and 70% of the top 100 fastest supercomputers in the world rely on Lustre for their storage needs.

If you need lots of data fast and reliably, value being able to use any vendor's block storage and want to become part of a world-wide open community, then Lustre is a good choice.

1. DiskInternals Linux Reader

DiskInternals Linux Reader A freeware tool for reading and extracting files from EXT2/EXT3/EXT4, HFS, UFS2, Reiser4, and ReiserFS partitions in Windows.......

2. Ext2Fsd

Ext2Fsd Ext2Fsd is an ext2 file system driver for Windows (2k, XP, Vista and Win7). It’s a free software. Anyone can modify or distribute it under GPL2.Features Ext2Fsd supports:ext2/ext3 volume reading & writingext3 journal replay when mountingvarious codepage: utf8, cp936, cp950 …mountpoint automatical assignmentlarge inode size: 128, 256, …large file size......

3. Ext2/3/4 Filesystem Utilities

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4. Explore2fs

Explore2fs Explore2fs is a GUI explorer tool for accessing ext2 and ext3 filesystems. It runs under all versions of Windows and can read almost any ext2 and ext3 filesystem.......

5. BeeGFS

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6. Funter

Funter Funter is a freeware Mac utility that can show and hide hidden and system files in Mac OS X Finder.It is light and simple to use application. Funter is helpful when you need to discover your files deep, to be sure all stuff you see.Funter can be launched at system......

7. SQLIO

SQLIO SQLIO is a tool provided by Microsoft which can also be used to determine the I/O capacity of a given configuration.......

8. TMSU

TMSU TMSU is a tool for tagging your files. It provides a simple command-line tool for applying tags and a virtual filesystem so that you can get a tag-based view of your files from within any other program.TMSU does not alter your files in any way: they remain unchanged on disk,......

9. Mirvago NTFS Mac Mounter

Mirvago NTFS Mac Mounter Mirvago NTFS Mac Mounter enables full read and write access to NTFS external hard drives / usb drives under Mac OS X. It will mount the drive and allow to add / edit files seamlessly, regardless of the file system format.So if you tried to use your external drive on......

10. dhtfs

dhtfs Makes the benefits of tagging available through a traditional filesystem framework like VFS.......

11. HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool

HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool utility will format any USB flash drive, with your choice of FAT, FAT32, or NTFS partition types. You can also make the disk bootable by specifying a file location.......

12. tagsistant

tagsistant Tagsistant is a semantic filesystem for Linux and BSD kernels. Its tag based method to organize files let's you quickly search and find it. It's able to reason on tags, it allows the creation of external plugins to enhance its behavior and its Free Software!......

13. Windows Grep

Windows Grep The program combines the power and flexibility of traditional command line grep utilities available on DOS, UNIX and other platforms with the ease of use of Microsoft Windows.In addition to searching, Windows Grep also performs global replacing in your files, with complete safety.Windows Grep is designed for searching plain-ASCII text......

14. fio

fio fio is an I/O tool meant for both for benchmark and stress/hardware verification. It has support for many different types of I/O engines, I/O priorities (on newer Linux kernels), rate limited I/O, forked or threaded jobs and much more.fio can work on either of block devices or files and accepts......

15. Mtools

Mtools Mtools is a collection of utilities to access MS-DOS disks from GNU and Unix without mounting them. It supports Win'95 style long file names, OS/2 Xdf disks and 2m disks (store up to 1992k on a high density 3 1/2 disk). Mtools can now handle the long filenames of Windows......