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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbe@ioremap.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pohmelfs@ioremap.net,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	Eveniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
Subject: Re: [1/9] pohmelfs: documentation.
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2008 20:22:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081226192219.GB1761@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1230301130-1325-2-git-send-email-zbe@ioremap.net>

Hi!

> +Homepage: http://www.ioremap.net/projects/pohmelfs
> +
> +POHMELFS first began as a network filesystem with coherent local data and
> +metadata caches but is now evolving into a parallel distributed filesystem.
> +
> +Main features of this FS include:
> + * Locally coherent cache for data and metadata with (potentially) byte-range locks.
> +	Since all Linux filesystems lock the whole inode during writing, algorithm
> +	is very simple and does not use byte-ranges, although they are sent in
> +	locking messages.
> + * Completely async processing of all events except creation of hard and symbolic
> +	links, and rename events.
> +	Object creation and data reading and writing are processed asynchronously.
> + * Flexible object architecture optimized for network processing.
> +	Ability to create long paths to objects and remove arbitrarily huge
> +	directories with a single network command.
> +	(like removing the whole kernel tree via a single network
> command).

Hmm, so we'll need new unlink_recursively() syscall?

> + * Very high performance.

Do you have some nfs comparison?
									Pavel
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-12-28  7:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-26 14:18 [0/9] pohmelfs: The Great Southern Trendkill release Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-26 14:18 ` [1/9] pohmelfs: documentation Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-26 14:18   ` [2/9] pohmelfs: configuration interface Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-26 14:18     ` [3/9] pohmelfs: crypto processing Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-26 14:18       ` [4/9] pohmelfs: directory operations Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-26 14:18         ` [5/9] pohmelfs: inode operations Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-26 14:18           ` [6/9] pohmelfs: distributed locking and cache coherency protocol Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-26 14:18             ` [7/9] pohmelfs: network operations Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-26 14:18               ` [8/9] pohmelfs: transaction layer Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-26 14:18                 ` [9/9] pohmelfs: kconfig/makefile and vfs changes Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-26 19:22   ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2008-12-28 13:41     ` [1/9] pohmelfs: documentation Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-28 22:19       ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
2008-12-30 21:23         ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-26 19:26 ` [0/9] pohmelfs: The Great Southern Trendkill release Pavel Machek
2008-12-28 13:53   ` Evgeniy Polyakov
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-02-09 14:02 [0/9] pohmelfs for drivers/staging Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-02-09 14:02 ` [1/9] pohmelfs: documentation Evgeniy Polyakov

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