From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: POHMELFS high performance network filesystem. Transactions, failover, performance. Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 18:06:17 -0400 Message-ID: <482B6259.3070507@garzik.org> References: <20080513174523.GA1677@2ka.mipt.ru> <4829E752.8030104@garzik.org> <20080513205114.GA16489@2ka.mipt.ru> <20080514135156.GA23131@2ka.mipt.ru> <482B378C.5070807@garzik.org> <20080514193843.GB10165@2ka.mipt.ru> <20080514215704.GE23758@shareable.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Evgeniy Polyakov , Jamie Lokier , Sage Weil , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:46063 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751844AbYENWGX (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2008 18:06:23 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080514215704.GE23758@shareable.org> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Jamie Lokier wrote: > With the right topology and hardware, you can get _faster_ than single > node performance with as many nodes as you like This is the core reason why I am so interested in distributed storage... a single storage device is usually slower than network wire speed. Multiple nodes helps remove that limitation and max out the network. I want to be able to stream data _faster_ than a single hard drive can handle :) Jeff