Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 15 Sep 2007 10:35:16 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: Distributed storage. Move away from char device ioctls. |
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Robin Humble wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 03:07:46PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: >> It is my hope that you will put your skills towards a distributed >> filesystem :) Of the current solutions, GFS (currently in kernel) >> scales poorly, and NFS v4.1 is amazingly bloated and overly complex. >> >> I've been waiting for years for a smart person to come along and write a >> POSIX-only distributed filesystem. > > it's called Lustre. > works well, scales well, is widely used, is GPL. > sadly it's not in mainline.
Lustre is tilted far too much towards high-priced storage, and needs improvement before it could be considered for mainline.
Jeff
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