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Message-ID: <482B6259.3070507@garzik.org>
Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 18:06:17 -0400
From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>,
Jamie Lokier <jamie@...reable.org>,
Sage Weil <sage@...dream.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: POHMELFS high performance network filesystem. Transactions, failover,
performance.
Jamie Lokier wrote:
> With the right topology and hardware, you can get _faster_ than single
> node performance with as many nodes as you like
This is the core reason why I am so interested in distributed storage...
a single storage device is usually slower than network wire speed.
Multiple nodes helps remove that limitation and max out the network.
I want to be able to stream data _faster_ than a single hard drive can
handle :)
Jeff
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