From: Robin Humble <rjh@cita.utoronto.ca>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Distributed storage. Move away from char device ioctls.
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 09:56:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070915135633.GA19482@lemming.cita.utoronto.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46EADC02.9070409@garzik.org>
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.
cheers,
robin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-15 14:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-14 18:54 Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-09-14 19:07 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-14 20:46 ` Al Boldi
2007-09-14 21:12 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-09-14 21:14 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-14 21:18 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-09-14 22:32 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-14 22:42 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-09-15 4:08 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-15 4:40 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-09-15 2:54 ` Mike Snitzer
2007-09-15 12:34 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-09-15 12:29 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-09-15 17:24 ` Andreas Dilger
2007-09-16 7:07 ` Kyle Moffett
2007-10-26 10:44 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-09-16 13:43 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-09-15 13:56 ` Robin Humble [this message]
2007-09-15 14:35 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-15 16:20 ` Robin Humble
2007-09-15 17:51 ` Andreas Dilger
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