Re: Distributed storage. Move away from char device ioctls.

Robin Humble
2007-09-15T14:20:25Z

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.

cheers,
robin