[OpenIndiana-discuss] fault-tolerant distributed file systems

[Paolo Marcheschi]

HDFS can be mounted:
http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/MountableHDFS

Another project worth trying i think is :
http://code.google.com/p/kosmosfs/

Paolo

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 11:47 PM, Geoff Nordli <geoffn at gnaa.net> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Jeppe Toustrup <openindiana at tenzer.dk>
> wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 22:04, Geoff Nordli <geoffn at gnaa.net> wrote:
> >> I am looking for a fault-tolerant distributed file system to store
> >> medium sized files (150MB-4GB) which can scale across 100s of servers
> >> and keep N replicas of each file.
> >
> > You say you need a file system, does that have to be a POSIX
> > compatible file system (ie. mountable) or do you just need to store
> > some files?
> > If you just need to store some files, you could have a look at Hadoop
> > or more specifically HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System), which
> > consists of java daemons which can synchronize files around for you
> > and manage all the redundancy. Libraries exists for all kinds of
> > languages to hook into the system, so there should be something which
> > could fit into your needs.
> >
>
> It needs to be a mountable file system.
>
> thanks,
>
> Geoff
>
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