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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@labs.coraid.com>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Q: moving directories? hard links?
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 18:41:25 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9482032322d5daaadceace1f6875dad3@coraid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110421211046.C474DB835@mail.bitblocks.com>

> IIRC companies such as Panasas separate file names and other
> metadata from file storage. One way to get a single FS
> namespace that spans multiple disks or nodes for increasing
> data redundancy, file size beyond the largest disk size,
> throughput (and yes, complexity).

that certainly does seem like the hard way to do things.
why should the structure of the data depend on where it's
located?  certainly ken's fs doesn't change the format of
the worm if you concatinate several devices for the worm
or use just one.

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-21 22:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-16  2:36 smiley
2011-04-16  2:40 ` Jacob Todd
2011-04-16  4:22 ` ron minnich
2011-04-16 16:53   ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-16 17:33   ` smiley
2011-04-16 17:51     ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-21 15:32       ` smiley
2011-04-21 15:43         ` ron minnich
2011-04-16 18:22     ` Bakul Shah
2011-04-21 15:44       ` smiley
2011-04-21 15:49         ` ron minnich
2011-04-21 16:54         ` Bakul Shah
2011-04-21 20:17           ` Richard Miller
2011-04-21 21:10             ` Bakul Shah
2011-04-21 22:41               ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2011-04-21 23:17                 ` ron minnich
2011-04-21 23:54                   ` Bakul Shah
2011-04-21 23:55                   ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-22  0:01                     ` ron minnich
2011-04-22  0:04                       ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-22  8:03                 ` Bakul Shah
2011-04-22  8:27                   ` dexen deVries
2011-04-22 13:05                   ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-22 17:47                     ` Bakul Shah
2011-04-24 18:58                       ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-16 18:03   ` Richard Miller
2011-04-16 18:17     ` Skip Tavakkolian
2011-04-16 18:56       ` Rob Pike
2011-04-18  9:08         ` Aharon Robbins
2011-04-18 12:41           ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-18 12:59             ` Lucio De Re
2011-04-18 13:00               ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-18 13:11                 ` Lucio De Re
2011-04-23  3:48                   ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-04-21  9:22       ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2011-04-16 16:58 ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-19 15:36 ` Charles Forsyth

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