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Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 09:56:33 -0400 From: Robin Humble <rjh@...a.utoronto.ca> To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org> Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Distributed storage. Move away from char device ioctls. 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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