Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755234AbXIOOUZ (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Sep 2007 10:20:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752300AbXIOOUK (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Sep 2007 10:20:10 -0400 Received: from quail.cita.utoronto.ca ([128.100.76.6]:45661 "EHLO quail.cita.utoronto.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750892AbXIOOUI (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Sep 2007 10:20:08 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1396 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sat, 15 Sep 2007 10:20:08 EDT Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 09:56:33 -0400 From: Robin Humble To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Distributed storage. Move away from char device ioctls. Message-ID: <20070915135633.GA19482@lemming.cita.utoronto.ca> References: <20070914185429.GA9439@2ka.mipt.ru> <46EADC02.9070409@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46EADC02.9070409@garzik.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 738 Lines: 19 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/