Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Dec 2006 16:02:21 -0800 (PST) | From | David Lang <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] RAIF: Redundant Array of Independent Filesystems |
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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.
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