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On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Nikolai Joukov wrote: > We have designed a new stackable file system that we called RAIF: > Redundant Array of Independent Filesystems. > > Similar to Unionfs, RAIF is a fan-out file system and can be mounted over > many different disk-based, memory, network, and distributed file systems. > RAIF can use the stable and maintained code of the other file systems and > thus stay simple itself. Similar to standard RAID, RAIF can replicate the > data or store it with parity on any subset of the lower file systems. RAIF > has three main advantages over traditional driver-level RAID systems: this sounds very interesting. did you see the paper on chunkfs? http://www.usenix.org/events/hotdep06/tech/prelim_papers/henson/henson_html/ this sounds as if it may be something that you would be able to make a functional equivalent to chunkfs with your raid0 mode. David Lang - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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