# Shared storage space across all nodes?

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/shared-storage-space-across-all-nodes/8214>\
**Category:** Rancher 1.x\
**Created:** [January 14, 2018, 2:22pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/shared-storage-space-across-all-nodes/8214 "2018-01-14T14:22:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![LonnieTC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e68b1a/32.png) [@LonnieTC](https://forums.suse.com/u/LonnieTC)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2018, 2:22pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/shared-storage-space-across-all-nodes/8214/1 "2018-01-14T14:22:22Z")

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Hi All,

I am looking for a viable solution for shared storage across Rancher nodes for container access.

I did come across this discussion which “might” be a solution, but am wondering if there is any other supported solution at this time?

Also, I was looking through the Catalog (via Rancher Server) and did not see anything that might work as well.

Just a side thought, I was wondering if anyone has investigate IPFS ([https://ipfs.io/](https://ipfs.io/)) or tried it?

Cheers,  
Lonnie

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**Author:** ![thoth](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/thoth/32/2696_2.png) [@thoth](https://forums.suse.com/u/thoth)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2018, 3:12am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/shared-storage-space-across-all-nodes/8214/2 "2018-01-20T03:12:25Z")

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[ipfs.io](http://ipfs.io) looks interesting, in the same vein, can I point you to

[openebs](https://www.openebs.io/)

and

minio --\> `www.minio.io`

flocker seems to be dead (or rather clusterHQ seems to be dead).

It’s also worth looking at the `https://kubernetes.iokubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/volumes` as the next version of rancher will be heavily based on k8s

PS - sorry about the fugly links, I guess I don’t even enough street cred to post more than 1 link atm

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**Author:** ![Ronan\_POZZI](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/ronan_pozzi/32/2394_2.png) [@Ronan\_POZZI](https://forums.suse.com/u/Ronan_POZZI)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2018, 11:05am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/shared-storage-space-across-all-nodes/8214/3 "2018-01-20T11:05:54Z")

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If you don’t need much IO, you can try NFS, but if you do, NFS is definitely not the solution, I mean, you can’t mount volumes from NFS directly to containers, you maybe have to sync NFS directory to another directory, then mount this one on your container.

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**Author:** ![sdevries](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@sdevries](https://forums.suse.com/u/sdevries)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2018, 2:19pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/shared-storage-space-across-all-nodes/8214/4 "2018-01-22T14:19:28Z")

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I noticed a thread here about [Rook.io](http://Rook.io) It seems to simplify setting up Ceph within a Kubernetes cluster; which would probably go very well with Rancher 2.0; or 1.6.x if you are using kubernetes with it.

[Minio.io](http://Minio.io) also looks interesting.

After 2.x, there may be more development on Rancher Longhorn as well.