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Re: Plans for 1.8+ (2.0?)


From: Rupert Pigott <darkb00ng@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 22:14:34 +0000

On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 13:23:38 +0100, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:

> Rupert Pigott wrote:
>> I don't know if IBM's GridFS does any better with the latency, but it
>> certainly scales a lot better but the barrier for adoption is $$$. It
>> costs $$$ and it costs a lot more $$$ to train up and hire the SAs to run
>> it. There are other options like AFS too, but people tend to be put off by
>> the learning curve and the fact it's an extra rather than something that
>> is packaged with the OS.
> 
> Do you happen to have links to GridFS and other systems you mentioned?

IBM call it "GPFS"... Grid Parallel Filesystem

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/clusters/software/gpfs.html

Regards,
Rupert



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