From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: Distributed storage. Move away from char device ioctls. Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 10:35:16 -0400 Message-ID: <46EBEDA4.3070103@garzik.org> References: <20070914185429.GA9439@2ka.mipt.ru> <46EADC02.9070409@garzik.org> <20070915135633.GA19482@lemming.cita.utoronto.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: Robin Humble Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20070915135633.GA19482@lemming.cita.utoronto.ca> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Robin Humble wrote: > 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. Lustre is tilted far too much towards high-priced storage, and needs improvement before it could be considered for mainline. Jeff