From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: Some very basic questions Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:13:33 +0200 Message-ID: <87vdvmdu36.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> References: <20081021132322.271ad728.skraw@ithnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org To: Stephan von Krawczynski Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20081021132322.271ad728.skraw@ithnet.com> (Stephan von Krawczynski's message of "Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:23:22 +0200") List-ID: Stephan von Krawczynski writes: > reading the list for a while it looks like all kinds of implementational > topics are covered but no basic user requests or talks are going on. Since I > have found no other list on vger covering these issues I choose this one, > forgive my ignorance if it is the wrong place. > Like many people on the planet we try to handle quite some amounts of data > (TBs) and try to solve this with several linux-based fileservers. > Years of (mostly bad) experience led us to the following minimum requirements > for a new fs on our servers: If that are the minimum requirements, what are the maximum ones? Also you realize that some of the requirements (like parallel read/write aka a full cluster file system) are extremly hard? Perhaps it would make more sense if you extracted the top 10 items and ranked them by importance and posted again. -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com