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From: ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] FileServer grid
Date: Sun,  8 Feb 2009 09:12:56 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <13426df10902080912r1fd25babv29d3cc16809be094@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e1d437a40902080724m5aad49bfme3fb6f9186f9d0d5@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 7:24 AM, Giacomo Tesio <giacomo@tesio.it> wrote:

> BTW my main problem is to know if, in a grid of plan 9 fileservers, there
> could be any kind of replication, keeping files reachable when a node goes
> down.


This sort of thing was done to death IIRC in the 80s. It was dropped
for a while because, at the scale of file server usage in the 90s, nfs
file servers were fine. At least from what I read today, google does
it now in GFS. There is an open source version of something that
claims to do provide it based on Hadoop
(http://hadoop.apache.org/core/) although the hadoop setups I have
seen use NFS for distributing files (!). I vaguely remember gluster
talking about failover and recovery (http://www.gluster.org/).

Have you done a literature search? I don't get the feeling that you have.

Thanks

ron



  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-08 17:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-06 22:26 Giacomo Tesio
2009-02-06 22:41 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-02-07 17:32   ` Giacomo Tesio
2009-02-07 22:57     ` Uriel
2009-02-07 23:00       ` erik quanstrom
2009-02-08  1:43         ` Uriel
2009-02-08 15:24       ` Giacomo Tesio
2009-02-08 17:12         ` ron minnich [this message]
2009-02-09  8:12           ` Giacomo Tesio
2009-02-10  3:52     ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-02-10  8:06       ` Giacomo Tesio
2009-02-10 16:37         ` ron minnich
2009-02-10 21:41           ` Giacomo Tesio
2009-02-11  7:05             ` Skip Tavakkolian
2009-02-10 22:03         ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-02-25  0:09     ` Enrico Weigelt
2009-02-06 22:53 ` erik quanstrom

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