From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
To: UZAIR LAKHANI <uzairr_bs1b@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Developing a Distributed File System
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:27:30 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060711192730.GP15380@schatzie.adilger.int> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060711045511.17081.qmail@web37507.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
On Jul 10, 2006 21:55 -0700, UZAIR LAKHANI wrote:
> Thanks for the reply. Basically we want to move
> towards developing a fail-over and high performance
> cluster file system. Although in the simplest design
> in which there will be a master server and a backup
> server.
>
> Therefore we first have to figure out the issues
> involved in a distributed file system (single server
> and multiple clients).
I hate to state the obvious, but this is a VERY HARD PROBLEM.
I may be biased in sugessing this, but why not spend your time
and efforts in improving some existing cluster filesystem instead
of spending 20 work years of effort just to get a decently usable
system? That way, instead of the ever-popular process of having
20 mediocre implementations of something Linux instead gains a
small number of very good implementations?
Possible targets of your efforts might include OCFS2, Lustre, GFS2.
Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Principal Software Engineer
Cluster File Systems, Inc.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-11 19:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-10 5:23 Developing a Distributed File System UZAIR LAKHANI
2006-07-10 8:18 ` Andreas Dilger
2006-07-11 4:55 ` UZAIR LAKHANI
2006-07-11 19:27 ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
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