Re: [9fans] ceph

[Roman V Shaposhnik <rvs@sun.com>]

On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 09:43 +0100, Steve Simon wrote:
> > Well, with Linux, at least you have a benefit of a gazillions of FS
> > clients being available either natively or via FUSE.
>
> Do you have a link to a site which lists interesting FUSE filesystems,
> I am definitely not trying to troll, I am always intrigued by others
> ideas of how to reprisent data/APIs as fs.

I don't, and I probably should start documenting it. The easiest way
to find them, though, is to be suscbribed to fuse ML and collect
the domain names of posters. Turns out that anybody who's doing cloud
storage these days does it via FUSE (which, might not be as surprising
if you think about what's the dominant OS on EC2). You have companies
ranging from startups:
   http://www.nirvanix.com/
all the way to tyrannosaurus' like EMC and IBM betting on FUSE to get
them to storage in the cloud.

Sadly, none of them are open source as far as I can tell.

> Sadly the Fuse fs I have seen have mostly been disappointing.There are
> a few I which would be handy on plan9 (gmail, ipod, svn) but most
> seem less useful.

The OS ones, are not all that impressive. I agree.

Thanks,
Roman.